Karl Barth. Paul S. Chung

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losing the consciousness of solidarity because of personal isolation and the loss of reflection and feeling. This means a smashing of the worker’s stance, of the worker’s will to resistance, and of the worker’s will to the self-organization of the proletariat.

      There is another example: Barth’s no to the so-called yellow worker organization, which was promoted as a strike-breaking organization by entrepreneurs, which would create agitation among the workers against the class struggle and would work for peaceful negotiation for the sake of employers. In confrontation with such organizations, Barth argued with the concepts of Marxist political economy and notices:

      Here Barth specifies the concept of worker: “‘Worker’ in a general sense is every well-behaved human. Herein is it meant: the worker who stands in service and wage of industrial enterprise”—also the wage worker. Its special feature Barth defines with the description of its labor relation.

      As Barth comments, the ruling classes

      To overcome compromise or accommodation of Christianity and socialism there was a need for a renewal of the so-called Christian morality and so-called socialist politics. In a lecture, “What Does It Mean to Become a Socialist?” on August 16, 1915, Barth expressed his intention to renew socialism regarding the failure of socialists in the Second International and their wrong collaboration with the War policy. According to Barth,


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