Che Chird International tho forence. Comrado Pannekoek has lowd vrapple with imperialism. This mediate demands, the significance and questions for the working class of all back it up by the whole weight of of it the inajority of the skilled and THE INTERNATIONALIST Saturday, January 6, 191762 ent upon thu great banks whose in the ruling classes and conquer their Anton Pannekoek torests are imporative for the trust stronghold the state.
magnates as well as for landed pro In face of this situation the labor in Uorbote prietors and middle classes. There is bureaucracy filled with awe no possibility for the representatives working class into avoiding actuat of labor to achievo concessions by light, for four a dofoat should imrado. Anton Pannekoek is from his NoteThe following article by Com. PROLETARIAN VICTORY questions of proletarian tactics, the ness. They are not capable of post skillfully playing one group against peril the local labor organizations majuzing, Vorhote. It gives the In great muss struggles, alongside significanco und possibilities of parlia ponement. Even during the war and another. No great political achieve and their funds.
Views hold by. Loft Wing soolalists in Europo and of the Zimmerwald conof which former strugglos and meth menturianism, of muss actions, of after its conclusion they form the ment can be accomplished by labor So the working class is now diods are merely child play, they must Jabor union tucties, reforms and im most important and immedinte vital representatives unless tho masses vided, powerless, despised. Ono part as one of the clearest thinkers in the movement. Editor. struggle for indispensable rights and the future role of organization; also nations.
their vast numbers and their econ organized aristocrats of Inbor goes liberties, for the most urgent re the questions of nationalism, of millomic power.
along with the bureaucratic labor forms, often for mero lifo itself, tarism and colonial policies.
WORKERS CHIEF ENEMY Revolutionary Socialists saw it long leaders. Another part, disgusted and ARE standing in the midst against reaction and the oppression Upon many of these questions the Not merely the important question, ago. They conceived that under the discouraged, falls in dull indifference.
of catastrophe of the of the employing class, against war old Socialisin hud settled answers, which everywhere is the kernel of the rule of imperialism mass action (un Only the third part mostly consistworking class movement, and poverty, can only end with the which had alrendy crystallized into object of struggle, whether and how ceasingly repeated demonstrations, ing of unskilled Jaborers is moved such as it has never experienced in ovorthrow of imperialism and the formulno but with the collapse of the proletariat can emerso, hasten parades, strikes) must be the prin by misery, class instinct and revoluall its history. The collapse of the victory of the proletariat over the the second Internationale even its the end of the war and influence the cipul means of strife of the working tionary sentiment and faces tho sitInternationale due to the world war bourgeoisie. It will at the same time formulao hnve gone by the board. In terms of penco. At the conclusion of clays, if it does not want to be de uation as it really is.
is not simply a surrender of interna be the struggle for Socialism, for the the old rules and ideas of the pre the war the immenso economic shut graded to the level of beasts of bur The aspirations of this third part ional sentiment before the power of emancipation of the protetariat. imperialistic era the proletariat cantering of the world will first be felt den.
are the beginning of the self deliver intensified nationalism. It is at the Therefore with the present world war tind no guides for its actions under in its entirety, when, with the conOur comrades, Anton Pannekoek, ance of the working class.
But even this fighting part of the methods of lighting, of the entiro Socialism.
same time collapso of tactics, of there also duwns a now period for new conditions. Nor can the social dition of general exhaustion, lack of Kurt Radek, Rosa Luxemburg, Henridemocratic parties furnish it with a capital and unemployment industry etto Roland Holst, and dthers did all proletariat does not have a clear unsystem which has been incorporated For the now struggle our spiritual firm foot hold. They have in the must be organized anew, whon the they could to spread this insight derstanding of the nature of imperinto the social democracy and the bearings must be taken anew. Lack creat majority surrendered to im fearful debts of all nations necessi among the masses and establish a ialism nor of the effective means and working class movoment during the of clear socialistic insight was one of porialism; the conscious, active or tate colossal taxes and state social mental understanding which is the methods of fighting it. To bring this last few decades.
the chief cnygos of the weakness of passiver support of war policies by Sin, the militarization of agricultural only possible organization of real understanding and insight that is The knowledge and tho, tactics the proletarlid when the war began the party and labor union, representa fursuits, as the only way out of the fighting masses.
the task of the Socialist Propaganda But such mass action means the be League of America. To performi alism; wero of vient servico to the own tactics, The fight against im sible a simple return to the old pre leb must bo met with or without ginning of the great final battle, La this task the members of the League proletariat, failed in the face of the perialism, tits most recent and most bellum point of view.
theory; but then the lack of theoret. Lutto Vinale, which is a long period must do what Marx told the Comnew imperialistic development. Out powerful form of capitalism, made OUR SPIRITUAL WEAPONS ical insight will entail the most dis of extremely acute class war, where munisty of his time to do: They wardly this was apparent in the in demands upon the highest spiritual This support of imperialism in its astrous errors.
the working class will be defeated must participate in every mass movecreasing impotency of the parliament and material, moral and organin most important and vital phrases There lies the greatest task of our many times until it grows so strong ment and represent in it the future and the labor, urilonmovomont, spirit tional, qualities of the proletariat. It charactorizes these working class or Journal: by discussion and elucidation morally and physically, as to rout of the class movement. r. Rosin.
ually in the substitution of tradition could not succumb to stupid, impotent scanizations, no matter how strongly of these questions it will support the and declamation for clear insight and desperation; but it was not enough they subscribe to the old socialist materinl struggle of the proletariat NOW FIX YOUR ATTENTION HERE. militant tactics, in stultification of that it break out into spontaneous ac solutions and combat the most inti against imperialism. As an organ of tactics and the forms of organizations against the unbearable pres mate effects of imperialism. For in discussion and elucidation it is at the tion, in the transformation of the sure. If these are to lead anywhere this way they come into conflict with same time an organ of battle the We assume that every live Left Wing Socialist in the United States revolutionary theory of Marxism and gain new stages on the climb the necessarily revolutionary aims of publisher and the contributors to the who receives this paper, is equally interested with us in making into a doctrine of passive expecta to power it is necessary that they be the proletariat and are themselves journal have the common will to give the year 1917 memorable in the history of uncompromising Socialism, and holds himself and herself tion, inspired with spiritual clarity in re forced into a dificult crisis of their battle, the same point of view in reready, as a good soldier in the RevolutIMPERIALIST DEVELOPMENT gard to the aims, the possibilities and own. Between those who would gurd to these chief questions of the the meaning of such actions. Theory make of the social democracy a tool practice to be adopted at this time.
tion, to outdo all previous efforts During the period when capitalism must go hand in hand with practice, of imperialism and those who want to First of all the struggle against by building the sub list.
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ual weapon, were already at hand in be Marxism. Marxism, regarded by all shades which would gloss over unHerico the present entustrophe does the spiritual defeat of the former the theoreticians of Socialism as the disputable antagonisms and would clear conception of present tendencies in capitalist sonot mean only that the proletariat practice of imperialism and mass ac method to explain the past and the rob the proletariat of the sharpest ciety is lacking; failing to comprehend the essential facts, they was too weak to prevent the outbreak tion. Now the world war has brought present and in their hands degraded weapons in its struggle against imare in a poor position to teach. strong tendency has set in of war. It means that the methods much new insight and has shaken more and more into a dry doctrine perialism. The reconstitution of the for governmental ownership and control of industry. The cap.
of the era of the second Internation minds out of the sleep of tradition of mechanical fatalism, again is to Third Internationale will only be italists see in this a chance for a more efficient and purposeful ale were not capable of increasing Now is the time to gather together come into its birthright as a theory made possible by an absolute break extension of their power and prolongation of their class dominthe spiritual and material power of everything in the way of new ideas of revolutionary acts. The philos with social patriotism.
ation. We see the majority in control of the Socialist movethe letariat to the necessary ex new solutions, new propositions, to ophers have interpreted the world in With this knowledge we stand upon ment learning nothing from the events that occur with everTent ProRKTP the power of the rul tospect thesis to prove them, to clar a number of differing ways: the real be same ground as the left wing of accelerating speed, and which plainly indicate that reformistic sing classes. Therefore the world war ify them by means of discussion and ncccssity is to alter it. As a live the Zimmerwald Conference. The tactics are of no avail against the juggernaut of Imperialism.
must be a turning point in the his thus to make them of service in the revolutionary method this sort of principles put forth by this group of The tecnique of industry is to be developed beyond anything tory of the working class movement. new struggle.
Marxism again becomes the most international socialists as their aim now obtaining; markets are to be sought and all the means at With the world war we have en An immense number of new ques solid principle, the sharpest spiritual our journal will support by theoretical the disposal of the capitalist class are to be invoked for the tered into a new period of capitalism, tions lie before us. First of all the weapon of Socialism.
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This picture is not overdrawn.
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Address. 12 modern capitalistic society. He re of the economic and historic develop partments, inevitably turned to bumos.
vealed the essence of cupitalism and ment.
reaucrats. They gradually lost sight studied the nature of the combatting In 1871 the great struggle of the of the real goal of the labor move.
classes under that system.
bourgeoisie for political power was ment, viz. the overthrow of the capBut he did not content himself with finished. After 82 years of revolution italistic society, and looked only for his theoretical discoveries; he turned ary wars the consolidation of the immediate practical achievements them into practical action. He not great national states of Central Eu within that society by accommodation only stated Cupital comes out of rope was accomplished and the bour of the labor movement to their re.
unpaid labor, but he also called out: geoisie, e. the personification of spective national capitalisms. Proletarians of all countries unite to capital, became master of these na Thirdly: Neither the bureaucrats overthrow tho capitulistic system oftional states and established its par of the labor movement, who were production. And as he theoretically liamentary form of government as wholly absorbed in their narrow demonstrated that there is and in the most suitable means of taking every day work, nor the organized evitably must be a deadly contrast care of the interests of all groups masses whose action practically conbetween the owning class and the of the upper as well as of the middle sists only in the electioneering of toiling class, a contrast that does not classes.
their leaders, noticed the great depend upon the will of either side So even the working class, or at change of situation accomplished by but dopends upon the historically do least the upper layers of the work the economic and political dovelopveloped conditions of production, he ing class of all Central Europe, got ment of the last two decades.
showed that practically this contrast some political rights and liberties: a What are these changes. can not be removed but by an ir certain amount of freedom of speech, Firstly: The development of the reconcilable strucglo of the proleta preug and coalition. And it was a wiso technic of production constantly inriang against the cupitalista. And policy for the working class to uso creases the number of unokilled this strugglo must be waged by the these rights and liberties by building laborors and badly mixes up the difunited efforts of the workers ther up strong organizations (economic ferent organized trades, so that the Collected by Remittance. T mos.
MIOS.