THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLAS STRUGGLE Vol. III FEBRUARY, 1919 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 243 55th Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year CONTENTS Page Editors: EUGENE DEBS, LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. III FEBRUARY, 1919 No. The Day of the People By EUGENE DEBS The Day of the People. By Eugene Debs 4 The State and Revolution. By Nikolai Lenin. 22 Lenin versus Wilson. By Karl Island 23 26 Problems of American Socialism. By Louis Fraina 2647 Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. By Ludwig Lore 47 64 Th Labor Party. By Dreifuss.
64 67 Karl Marx. By Franz Mehring. 68 75 Economic and Menshevik Determinism. By Maurice Blumlein 7687 The Principles of Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship. By Leon Trotzky 88 91 The National Constituent Assembly. By Karl Kautsky 91 94 Editorials 95 110 World Safe for Democracy. The Crime cf Crimes. Mexico and American Imperialism. Franz Mehring. The Constitutional National Assembly.
Party Discussion 111 115 What is the Left Wing Movement and its Purpose? The Communist Propaganda League of Chicago.
Documents 116 127 Swedish Party Correspondence. The Germa. Revolution ard Russia. The Appeal of the Spartacus Group to the Berlin Workmen. An Appeal of the Spartacus Group.
Upon his release from the Kaiser bastile the doors of which were torn from their hinges by the proletarian revolutionKarl Liebknecht, heroic leader of the rising hosts, exclaimed. The Day of the People has arrived. It was a magnificent challenge to the Junkers and an inspiring battle cry to the aroused workers.
From that day to this Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and other true leaders of the German proletariat have stood bravely at the front, appealing to the workers to join the revolution and make it complete by destroying what remained of the criminal and corrupt old regime and ushering in the day of the people. Then arose the cry that the people were not yet ready for their day, and Ebert and Scheidemann and their crowd of white livered reactionaries, with the sanction and support of the fugitive Kaiser, the infamous Junkers and all the allied powers, now in beautiful alliance, proceeded to prove that the people were not yet ready to rule themselves by setting up a bourgeois government under which the working class should remain in substantially the same state of slavish subjection they were in at the beginning of the war.
And now upon that issue as to whether the terrible war has brought the people their day or whether its appalling sacrifices have all been in vain the battle is raging in Germany as in Rus119 The Co Operative Press 15 Spruce St. New York