128 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Crisis in the German Social Democracy To give to the movement its character By Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, and Franz Mehring The authors of this book, all of whom met death in various ways in January of this year, came together shortly after the European War began, to write a scathing indictment of the economic system of the civilized world which had made the world war inevitable. There is no better arraignment of German capitalism and its tool, German militarism, than that written by these thres Germans. 128 pages.
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THE SOCIALIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 243 55th Street, Brooklyn. Letter to American Workingmen While the revolutionary period itself commands the creation and the computation and payment of the cost of a mass strike, the leaders, of the Social Democracy have an entirely different mission to fulfill. Instead of concerning itself with the technical side, with the mechanism of the mass movement, it is the duty of the Social Democracy to undertake the political leadership even in the midst of a historical crisis. To give to the movement its character, to determine the direction that the struggle must take, to so fix the tactics of the political conflict that in its every phase and movement the whole sum of existing and already soluble active forces of the proletariat is realized, and finds expression in the attitude of the party, that the determination and the rigor of the Social Democracy shall not for an instant fall below the level of actual power, but shall rather hasten in advance of its actual power, that is the important task of our party leadership in a great historical crisis. In a sense this leadership will then become the technical leadership. determined, consistent, progressive tactic of the SocialDemocracy creates in the masses a feeling of assurance and selfconfidence, a fighting spirit. weakly, vaccilating tactic, based upon a low estimate of the power of the proletariat, lames and confuses the masses. In the first case, mass actions break out of their own accord, and at the right time. in the second, even a direct call for mass action on the part of the leaders often remains ineffectual. Rosa Luxemburg in Mass Strike, Party and Labor Unions, Hamburg, 1907.
By Nikolai Lenin We published this letter in our last issue, and have reprinted it for separate distribution in this cheap form, at the request of many comrades. 16 pages.
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THE SOCIALIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 243 55th Street, Brooklyn. Accuse Fritz Adler Speech in his own defense at his trial for the murder of Premier Stuerghk.
It will be interesting to readers who wish to compare his first speech upon being liberated from prison, which is printed in this issue, with this, his last speech before being sentenced for his act.
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