THE CLAS STRUGGE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 115 Worth St. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Vol. JULY AUGUST, 1917 No. Editors: LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORE Vol. JULY AUGUST, 1917 No. TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY By LUDWIG LORE CONTENTS Page To Make the World Safe for Democracy.
By Ludwig Lore. War and Public Opinion. By Austin Lewis 16 Socialist Policy in Peace and War.
By Boudin.
16 35 War Legislature. By Joseph Whitehom 36 46 Political Majorities and Industrial Minorities.
By Eric Niel 46 59 Socialists and War.
By Robert Rives La Monte 594 75 2) By Louis Fraina 75 99 Philipp Scheidemann. Pen Picture.
100 101 accuse! Friedrich Adler Address in Court 102 114 Current Affairs.
115 Peace with Victory, 115; Lost a Peace Demand, 117. Automobile Patriots, 118; Mr. Wilson and Child Labor, 119; The War and American Unionism, 120; The Russian Revolution and the War, 123; On the Road to the New International, 126; Friedrich Adler, 129; The Socialist Party and Stockholm, 132; Spargo Co. 135; The Attitude of Lenin, 138.
Documents for Future Socialist History 142 Majority Resolution on War and Militarism, 142; Minority Resolution on War and Militarism, 147; Minority Report on War, 148; To the Socialista of the Belligerent Countries, 151. If one could sit on the moon, and gaze upon the events of this mundane sphere from the bird eye perspective of a disinterested spectator one can hardly conceive of a more amusing pastime. Unfortunately, we cannot live high up in the rare atmosphere of other worlds, but are condemned to stand, as more or less active participants, in the midst of the turmoil and carneval called life.
Consider, for instance, how ludicrously funny it must seem to the man in the moon to watch the masters of the most progressive nations instilling into the hearts of their subjects a deadly hatred against their fellow men, whom they have never seen; a hatred that is so general, and, at the same time so intense that it makes whole nations blind to the insanity of killing and maiming men with whom they have no quarrel, of sacrificing the flower of their own manhood in its cause.
To be sure, each nation has its very sufficient reasons.
They are all pathetically eager to offer excuse upon excuse to palliate their role in the horrible business of war, And still it has never been so unmistakably apparent as in this world war, that the figleaf with which rulers and subjects both strive to cover up their bestiality, is the product of a policy of bare.
faced romancing and infamous hypocrisy. The boldness with which new and more attractive justifications are substituted 119