صفحة 9 من 88

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases

the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must

nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions

everywhere.

The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market

given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in

every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn

from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it

stood. All old-established national industries have been

destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new

industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question

for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up

indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest

zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home,

but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants,

satisfied by the productions of the country, we find new wants,

requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands

and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and

self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction,

universal inter-dependence of nations.