634 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 635 Documents Protest of the Independent Labor Party of England The International Socialist Commission in Stockholm transmits the following protest of the Central Committee of the Independent Labor Party of England against the intervention of the Entente in Russia...

15 14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Passing of the Nation By BOUDIN And at the very moment when Bakhmetieff stood hat in hand, a humiliating speech passing over his lips, in the presence of the representatives of capitalism, Tseretelli and Kerensky were explaining to the revolutionary democracy how impo...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 41 Our Obedient Congress By LUDWIG LORE The war session of the Sixty fifth Congress deserves the good rating it received from the President down to the cheapest politician. For never before did an American parliament so obediently swallow so many bitter...

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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...

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...

120 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Fraina Defense Fund Louis Proina, one of the Editors of The Class Struggle, and Bditor of The New International, has been found guilty of alleged con.
spiracy to violate the Draft Law, Fraias was arrested as a Conscientious Objector, tried as a Con.
scicatious Objeotor,...

198 199 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP those nations with whom there was some likelihood of immediate conflict. Oriental troubles led him to the oriental languages; he steered clear of Arabic with its four thousand roots, but Persian is a veritable child play of a language. he would be ...

296 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PONTIUS PILATE SCHEIDEMANN 297 Pontius Pilate Scheidemann By Dr. Hans Block (Leipzig. Within a few days the curtain will fall upon the fifth act of that great tragedy, the Russian Revolution. What has happened in Russia was not the intention of the Social Democracy. Before ...

336 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 337 venture in partnership with others. Like the good realists that we were, we knew, of course, that we cannot cast up accounts once for all and then throw ourselves blindly into relentless action. We knew that in order that we may count in the game we must...

364 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 365 the civilian ministers had declared that no Austrian troops would take part in the last invasion of Russian soil, the military command set them in motion. few weeks after Count Czernin had vowed that he would not take a yard of Russian territory, the Magyars f...

368 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 369 ment has left that stage behind it; whether one judge that this is for good or for evil, one own bias on these questions will decide.
The difference between Mr. Gompers and the British labor movement is partly due to the fact that the latter has behind it the ...

184 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 185 in other form. Any military forces sent into Russia to do the dirty work of German imperialism, cannot be kept immune from the virus of Russian Socialist propaganda and influence. The work done during one year of the revolution canno...

10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 11 Socialist Terms of Peace By Louis BOUDIN there has been a constant insistence by the laborers upon conditions, which has very materially improved the status of the worker on the farm. Here and there small groups have been claiming better pay and more human conditions of l...

JAPAN AND CHINA 167 166 THE CLASS STRUGGLE China is a large country with an enormous population. Modern China is governed by a comparatively small class of the population, by the educated men of the nation, altogether about five million in number, comprising approximately one and onequarter per c...

170 171 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPAN AND CHINA Japonlic (the eastern devil. Furthermore, it loosened the stranglehold that Germany held upon China. Hitherto the Chinese had felt that their army, drilled and commanded by German experts, was invincible. The ease with which the Japanese forces advanced ...

312 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY 313 fanatic and ordered the latter arrest. The colonies that Robert Owen founded did not last very long. The members soon began to quarrel among themselves. The colonies, which Robert Owen thought served as a stepping stone to the Socialist State, were so...

112 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ON THE FIRING LINE AGAINST WAR AND IMPERIALISM Win recruits for our cause, by unceasing agitation. Found organizations that will proclaim and put into action our principles, wherever they do not yet exist, help diligently in building up those that are already organized. You...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 63 62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE When we come to America we constantly talk and write as though American Socialists had the power to affect appreciably the foreign policy of the United States. The first step to right reasoning is to admit that in this domain we are almost if not quite ...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE the Socialists will suffer most under this system need not be emphasized. But this is merely by the way. Much more dangerous is the step wise militarization of the United States, of which the present conscription act is but the beginning.
When our maste...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 67 them of Guesde in France, Hyndman in England and De Leon here?
But aside from this economic reason there are certain special circumstances in the history of the German peoples which made the German army a special danger to freedom and democracy.
The peo...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 173 72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE were admonished not to disapprove of it on the plea of neutrality. When Germany inaugurated a peace propaganda in this country our party entered upon a peace agitation which was not essentially different in character from that of Germany official and u...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 77 Socialism is a failure and in despair, La Monte accepts the hypocritical idealism of this war for democracy.
The article is not an argument as much as a soliloquy. La Monte was thinking aloud, and put his thoughts on paper. And the peculiarity of it all...

22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 23 The War and America By Louis FRAINA The entry of American Capitalism into the war is the culmination of a process interesting in itself, and still more interesting as token of what is to come.
When the war burst upon the world, America and shall use the...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 25 very clear.
two and three hundred per cent. profit? Even an unselfish war for democracy must be made to pay in dollars and cents. Otherwise, what the good of it all?
Only a supreme novelist could adequately describe the emotions of this period; only a s...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 77 to a bodyguard and protector of the Emperor, which not only in the August days of 1914 fell into the lying trap of the government, but even now, when the true character of this imperialistic war for conquest stands openly revealed still remain the volun...