54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 55 Yes, but it remains to be decided whether they must be removed before or after consulting the Advisory Commission. They are in every respect indispensable. The soldiers will obey only the powers of their own choice; they can respect no others.
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56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 57 made from the Germans (their colonies) and take away from the Germans all conquests made by those robbers. We shall, since we have not yet relinquished all the unfounded hopes which the petite bourgeoisie attaches to the capitalists. No, for th...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 59 tion, that is, their passing over into the possession of the whole people.
23. What form of Socialist International, establishing and realizing a brotherly union of all the workers in all countries, is now desirable for the nations? and General...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 61 II This fact became particularly apparent when the new government not only did not publish the secret treaties concluded between the late Czar and the capitalist governments of England, France, etc. but even formally confirmed these secret trea...

62 63 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA the taking over of all the powers of government in all the belligerent countries by the revolutionary proletariat.
with Germany. We consider the German capitalists to be the same band of robbers as the capitalists of Russia, England, France, et...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 65 Imperialism and the New Middle Class By RUTGERS by the levying of taxes, resulted in a greater amount of misery, exploitation and starvation than in the worst periods of direct colonial plunder. This was the era of free trade in which inte...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 67 process of production and especially of distribution under Capitalism. only mention two points: First, the enormous waste in foreign investments and foreign enterprises. great many of the railroads and other colonial experiments do not yie...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 69 Such is the character of Imperialism in peace and in war.
And this character dominates all social institutions and all human relations. It means aggression and brutality, it means an utter disregard of human life and human rights, save the...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 71 Capital itself and does in no way interfere with the fact that the State is dominated by the Interests of the Moneykings.
But how to explain that we do not see a strong fight of the independent capitalists against the monopolists who evide...

72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CASE OF FRAINA 73 The Case of Fraina By EDWARD DRYDEN Louis Fraina and Edward Ralph Cheyney, arrested at a meeting of Conscientious Objectors, were found guilty of conspiracy to violate the Draft Law by a jury in the United States District Court, New York City, on Octobe...

74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CASE OF FRAINA 75 If this verdict, gained in such a manner, is allowed to stand, then members of organizations of Conscientious Objectors are de facto guilty of conspiracy to violate the Draft Law, and may be indicted, convicted and sent to prison.
It is this which makes...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CASE OF FRAINA 77 point is blessed, and judging from the working class standpoint is cursed, with a President who is particularly adept in the making of symbols and in the coining of phrases, which in themselves mean nothing in the struggle for freedom and democracy, but...

78 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CASE OF FRAINA 79 defense, under the able management of Louis Boudin, completely smashed the case of the prosecution.
Boudin first succeeded in having the first count under the Espionage indictment dismissed; and before the case went to the jury, he made a motion to dism...

STOCKHOLM 81 80 THE CLASS STRUGGLE course, no doubt of the fact that the Dutch Scandinavian committee which called the Conference was actuated by the very best of motives. But there seems to be as little doubt of the fact that the German and Austrian governments saw a chance of turning this Confe...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE STOCKHOLM 83 to Stockholm as the officially sent commis voyageurs of the Foreign Office.
But even more weighty than the opinions of these valiant and beloved comrades is the testimony of the known facts surrounding the Stockholm Conference. And first and foremost among these...

84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 85 The Tragedy of the Russian Revolution nationalists and most valiant fighters for peace unrepresented would clearly be in such an anomalous position as to make its labors highly unsatisfactory. way must therefore be found to make participation by these elements possible. A...

THE TRAGEDY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 87 86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The truth of the matter is that both Socialist factions in Russia are the victims of a cruel fate which constitutes the tragedy of the Russian Revolution. When the Russian Revolution was accomplished, the Russian Revolutionists who we...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRAGEDY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 89 As the moderates were being kicked and cuffed by their Allies in Paris, London and Washington, as their demands for a revision of the old secret treaties being refused, and their pleadings for permission to meet at Stockholm ignored t...

90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 91 The Task of the Constituent Assembly. Republic without a President.
From the Iswestia. Reports of the Council of Deputies of the Workmen and Soldiers. Petrograd, the 13 26 of April, 1917.
Elsewhere in this issue we discuss the situation in Germany.
It is therefore unneces...

92 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TASK OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 93 When first chosen as member of the Provisional Government, he started with the significant words before the Council of Deputies of Workmen and Soldiers. Comrades, do you believe me? Do you have faith in me. Cries: Yes, yes, we have. am...

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94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TASK OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 95 mocracy; it needs slaves, subjects. Militarism cannot stand democracy; it needs soulless machines, tools of destruction. It needs martial law; and the capitalistic classes of to day everywhere have thrown and are throwing sometimes s...

C 96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TASK OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 97 Let us take, as an example, the question of the President of the Republic. In a Republic the president appears as the head of the State, just as the monarch represents the head of the State in monarchy. The greatest majority of the r...

98 THE CLASS STRUGGŻE THE TASK OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 99 Nothing could ever prevail upon our Constituent Assembly to incur such a risk and to make presidential adventures possible.
The position of a president offers temptation by all kinds of adventure, especially and mostly when the preside...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 101 Current Affairs Is the increase in socialist sentiment and understanding in sound proportion to the actual vote cast for our candidates?
This, and this alone, is the criterion by which the true worth of this campaign may be judged.
The New York Mayoralty...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGŻE 103 CURRENT AFFAIRS way they could. For the first time in the history of the Socialist movement of New York our meetings were crowded with audiences made up of such newcomers. To speak to these people in the phraseology of scientific Socialism would have been more than futi...