The possessors of property had not only to face the awakened proletariat, but they had also to fight amongst themselves.

Yes.

Struggle, warfare, was the condition of private ownership.

It was fatal.

Ah! he did not depend upon emotional excitement to keep up his belief, no declamations, no anger, no visions of blood-red flags waving, or metaphorical lurid suns of vengeance rising above the horizon of a doomed society.