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vember 27, 1918 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Bolshevikjabs The Spartacus Group gonisms and makes the struggle more imcable relations and it looks as if the entire Worklacable.
ingclass family would shortly be in complete acBy this agreement, the Provisional Governcord.
nent technically makes itself subject to the Coun ONE never knows what those Bolsheviki will do il, but it is still the government, there is still a next. Finding their imperial masters in Germa democratic government of all the classes, and ny have been overthrown they immediately get aot a revolutionary government of the proletariat. jobs with the German revolutionists. Or can it be Nor does the agreement necessarily mean that the that the our bourgeois press was wrong in the Council will no control the government, since the first place and that Lenin and Trotzky were not In the first issue of The Revolutionary Age, in moderate policy of the Councils may square with the agents of Imperialism after all. our editorial At the Kerensky Stage we declared that the Social Democratic Party of Scheidemann the government and the two come to an under We live in an age of progress. In other times Co. was not a definitely, uncompromisingly revolustanding. The agreement is humiliating; but it the common people knew nothing about peace, or tionary, party, and that the revolutionary Socialists is not fatal to the Provisional Government, not peace conferences, until the whole affair was dewere represented by the Spartacus Group and the fatal, that is to say, except as it accelerates the finitely settled. Now things are different, secret Group Internationale, the movement of Karl Liebrecht, Otto Ruhle, Rosa Luxemburg and Franz Mehring development of antagonisms and the determina diplomacy an affair of the past the cards of the conscious upcompromising Bolshevild of Germany, tion of the masses to end all compromise by plac imperialistic ambition are laid on the international representing the tendency of the revolutionary prole ing power in the Councils and the dictatorship of table. Everyone who can read a newspaper has tariat. These Socialists are in favor of the the proletariat.
access to all the details, the relative values of the government of Councils, and have unreservedly and enthusiastically greeted the Russian Soviet Republic.
By this agreement, the Councit may advise the different places the conference might take place When that was written not a word had appeared in the government, is co equal with the government, but are publicly discussed, photos of the various news concerning the Spartacus Group and its policy.
it is not the government. The acceptance of ad buildings mentioned are openly published so that But the news is now justifying our analysis, showing that the Spartacus Group is the centre of the actual visory functions that is what the agreement the common people may decide for themselves revolutionary movement in Germany. We reprint beactually means is not an act of revolutionary whether the momentous proceedings shall take low extracts from a special cable dispatch, appearing energy, it is an act of stultification, paltering place beneath the vaulted arches of medieval in the New York Times of November 24, concernwith the problems of the Revolution. The policy architecture or within the less impressive halls of ing the Spartacus Group)
of the Provisional Government is clearly not sat the mid Victorian period, the approximate date isfactory to the revolutionary masses, it is a pol of the sittings is common knowledge, even the IN one large room, from the silk hangings of icy that evades the problems of the Revolution probable personnel of each country delegation is whose wall a life size portrait of von Bulow and would promote a counter revolution. But the openly forecasted and homes have already been smiled benevolently down on them, sat the dele ment, of hesitation and compro broken up over the relative merits of Teddy Roose gates from the Soldiers and Workmen Council mise will prove equally unsatisfactory to the rev velt and Billy Sunday as pacifists.
olutionary masses unless they surrender. Yes, secrecy has fled from the realms of inter which they were to stand up for what they deemwaiting for admission to the Cabinet meetings, at Division of power promotes either revolution national politics.
ed their supreme authority or counter revolution; cannot prevail. It cannot prevent the proletarian revolution; but it Some impossible persons are clamouring to have rath von Siemen, who made it quite clear that, In another room was introduced to Geheimcan multiply the time and the intensity of the the peace delegates elected by referendum vote, although he had previously been attached to neither power to the bourgeoisie nor to the prole read the papers discuss the probable appointees confidence in Ebert and his associates, and de tariat, must necessarily mark time, evade all real is almost as good as an election.
clared his conviction that only a strong Socialist action, prove incapable of creative accomplishments. Division of power in Russia made the How are the mighty fallen Taft has been the German nation through the present crisis. He revolutionary path a thorny one and increased the asked to direct baseball.
said that they feared no reactionary plot by the demoralization of the country, complicating enormously the task of Socialist reconstruction. Mr. Lloyd George has again displayed that deep suscitation of a deceased body politic.
Kaiser friends, for nobody believed in the reThis is equally the tendency in Germany, soft insight into the affairs of men that has so often ened by the fact that the revolutionary explosion marked his public utterances. He declares that the The only danger, he added, was that the present may break out much more speedily than in Russia. Irish question must be settled; he is not quite tion of such irresponsibles as the Spartacus Group.
ing upon immediate, creative, drastic action must not be settled neither the complete inde This toleration was dictated by the Cabinet ear: Division of power and Germany wavering be pendence of Ireland nor the coercion of Ulster nest desire to maintain unity, order and law, he tween mercy from the Allies and revolutionary under any form of Home Rule government is to asserted, so as not to forfeit the good will of Pre sident Wilson, of which the German nation was co operation with Soviet Russia. Division of be considered for a moment. Now the whole afso pitiably in need at present.
power and the international proletarian revolu fair is made clear. am informed from other sources that the tion now depending upon the conquest of by the revolutionary proletariat in Germany. The Soviet form of government would be quite Spartacus Group is really at the bottom of the Division of power and the problems of recon agreeable to many Irish rebels we know of. present differences between the People Commissioners Ebert, Haase Co. and the Executive struction requiring a dictatorship of the Socialist proletariat. Division of power and the forces The Bolsheviki have at last pulled off the Committee of the Soldier and Workmen Counof the oneoming proletarian revolution preparing slaughter of the innocents and on St. Bartholom cil. Although the latter has expressed itself re to annihilate compromise and the representatives ew Day. Russian calendar. Isn that just peatedly in favor of a national convention, it of compromise.
like them, and so appropriate too? Such a delicate seems that members of the Spartacus Group have persuaded it to protest against an early date for But revolutionary Socialism in the Councils is compliment to the French!
the election, which it was said that the People acquiring ascendancy at a positively feverish speed. The Spartacus Socialists are compelling 2, 050 Germans are in imminent danger of Commissioners had decided on without first con the moderates to make concession after concession death in Moscow says a newspaper dispatch sulting the Executive Committee of the Council.
Hence the latter assertion that the People to avert disaster but disaster will come. The dealing with the massacre. This would, of course, government of the People Commissaires is strenghten the reports that the Bolshevik leaders Commissioners form only its executive organ; hence also this official communication issued to now an executive organ of the Councils, but are all pro German.
neither Karl Liebknecht nor Rosa Luxemburg are day: in its personnel. Why? Because they would not The New York Evening Telegram has discover The information published Nov. 17 that reaccept positions in any but a government of the ed that the German Socialists are plotting to gistration for the election of a national convention Councils a revolutionary dictatorship of the pro bring the Kaiser back to the Imperial Throne of would begin Jan. and that the election would letariat. The opposition of the revolutionary So Germany, Warned by Lord Reading, Sir George take place Feb. is incorrect, no proposition of cialists to a Constituent Assembly is not conse Cave and others it says that the Hun has that kind having yet been decided upon by the quent upon the desire to establish certain petty shown no change of heart and mystified by the Commissioners.
What the Spartacus Group and certain elements to ratify, as the press reports. but because a Con opinion finds nothing extravagant in the suggest of the Soldiers and Workmen Council are planstituent Assembly is the organ of the bourgeois ion that the Socialist Reds are providing a handy ning is to delay the national convention until cer revolution, not of the proletarian revolution; not tool for projects cherished before the armistice tain radical measures of finance and equally rathe Constituent Assembly, but revolutionary was signed.
dical assessments of taxes and socializing of cermass action is the order of the day, the Consti So that why the Kaiser put Liebknecht in jail! tain large industrial enterprises have been actuent Assembly is the negation of the dictatorcomplished in such a manner that not even the Some of our capitalist contemporaries seem to national convention will dare reconsider them.
And Scheidemann, lackey of the bourgeoisie, be in doubt as to who this Herr Spartacus really Drastic reform in the inheritance tax as well as moans in the Berlin Vorwaerts that the inse is. In order to prevent them from jumping to the restrictions of land ownership are also planned.
curity of the government is due to the undis conclusion that he is the Kaiser incognito we All these measures, if perhaps in a more mode turbed activity the Spartacus Group, who in hasten to explain.
Herr Spartacus is a cougin to the Mr. Bolsherate form, are also part of the program of the viki who made so much trouble in Russia. The regular Socialists, but they are willing to submit The agreement is consequence of the strug relationship is a double one, their mothers the it to a national convention, trusting that they will gle for state power, and is a compromise. But it Misses Social Revolution were sisters, but there elect a majority.
The bourgeois parties fear that the Soldiers is a compromise indicating that the centre of is also a blood tie on the paternal side. The elder power is shifting to the left, to the Councils and Miss Social Revolution married Russian Working and Workmen Council, aided by the Spartacus revolutionary Socialism. The problem of power class, while German Workingclass became and similar groups, will succeed in wresting the will ftare up decisively in a final implacable strug enamoured of the younger. The Working supreme power from the People Commissioners gle and all power to the dictatorship of the prole class are a well known family and for and that the next few days will see a change in tarian and revolutiona Socialism. The prole some years showed signs of becoming very closely the Government unless the Commissioners alter tarian revolution in Germany will conquer on the united, but a little trouble developed in an equally their extremely tolerant attitude. It is more than day it decrees all power to the Councils of Work well known household called Upperclass and the doubtful that even in Berlin and a few other large men the norms of the communist republic of Workingclass split as a result. Herr Spartacus and cities the Spartacus and kindred elements possess Socialiam.
Mr. Bolsheviki have, however, re established ami anything like a majority.
power ship of the proletariat.
their press and meetings are endeavoring to win