104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 105 CURRENT AFFAIRS all Socialists to fight their own capitalist governments and give no quarter. By using Liebknecht name in this peculiar manner they not only do injustice to the Socialist movement of the United States but create an impression of Karl Liebknecht which can...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 107 tionary influence in the United States today than that of the average German voter.
The battle has been fought and won. new and a bigger fight is on, the fight, not for humanity and the people, as it was rather unfortunately expressed in our city campaig...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 109 selves by declaring war without adequate or reasonable cause.
We should do the country the honor of correcting that fatal mistake as soon as possible. Alliance with foreign nations should not be tolerated. Our hands should be kept entirely free to negoti...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 111 110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE she is necessarily worse than those who have entered the struggle before her. Only that we have not seen the others when they were plotting, manoeuvring, calculating. When we first beheld them they were in the midst of the combat, a prey to the fiercest ...

112 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 113 paign, as long as the Allied peoples are taught by Mr. Simonds and their other patriotic advisers that national selfishness is the highest virtue?
Germany is able to follow the Napoleonic strategy because Germany has in fact no allies. Her allies have be...

114 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 115 was both a student as well as a teacher at that remarkable institution of learning.
The Neue Zeit was founded in the fall of 1882, when the Bismarck anti Socialist laws were in full operation and the German Socialist movement at its lowest ebb. But its y...

116 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 117 our feet by the vociferations of Messrs. Scheidemann Co.
and their following in Germany and elsewhere.
It is therefore refreshing to see Kautsky standing by the true Socialist principles, and braving the terrors of the German Government, as well as of Sc...

118 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 119 the pitiful state into which the Russian working class has fallen by following the extremists.
At the same time the great victories at Riga, and particularly in Italy, have more than offset the semi failure of the boat campaign and have re established th...

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,...

A NECESSARY BOOK SOCIALISM AND WAR By LOUIS BOUDIN scholarly discussion of the causes of the Great War, and a splendid discussion of the economic basis of Imperialism.
It has everywhere been bailed as a fine contribution to Socialist thought, by such men as Eugene Debs, Austin Lewis and Joshua Wa...

THE CLAY STAVGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, 1918 No. LEON TROTZKY TO JULES GUESDE Peace and The International By ROSA LUXEMBURG SAMUEL GOMPERS By ADOLPH GERMER Proletarian Revolution in Russia By FRAINA PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIALIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 119 LAFAYET...

THE CLAS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, 1918 No. Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 119 Lafayette St. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editor. LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORR VOL. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, ...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER FROM LEON TROTZKY Moreover, even though the reasons for this action against me have not been communicated to me, whom they above all concern, these reasons have been stated by Mr. Briand to the deputies and to the journalists.
In Marseilles last August a number of Russ...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER FROM LEON TROTZKY Republic, for the Franco Russian alliance and its consequences, for the conquest aims of the Czar, and for all the aims and methods of this war it remains for you to accept as well the renown for the deeds of these agents provocateur of his Majesty th...

6 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER FROM LEON TROTZKY are mistaken. The opposition is growing. In spite of martial law, in spite of this mania of nationalism which, whatever its form, be it royalistic, radical, or socialistic, always preserves its capitalistic quintessence revolutionary opposition is mar...

8 THE CLASS STRUGGLE You imprisoned Louise Soumoneau in one of your jails; but have you thereby diminished the despair and the despondency of this land? You can arrest hundreds of Zimmerwaldists, after having ordered your press agents to besmirch them again and again with police suspicions; but c...

10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SAMUEL GOMPERS 11 Gompers governor friend went to greater tyrannical extremes than his republican predecessor, the now dead, but unlamented, James Peabody, in the strike of 1903 and 1904. In fact, Gompers unprecedented victory was such a miserable failure that at the very ne...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SAMUEL GOMPERS 13 Another case that proved the failure of Gompers policies is that of the Hinchman Coal and Coke Company of West Virginia against the United Mine Workers of America. That decision is more dangerous to organized labor in its ultimate effect than the Danbury Ha...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SAMUEL GOMPERS 15 can McDonald got through with him. too, wanted to take him to task for his reactionary policy and for his untruthful charges against Comrades Debs and Berger and myself, but Frank Hayes, who presided, came to his rescue by entertaining a motion to close deb...

16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 17 Peace and the International By Rosa LUXEMBURG.
In spite of military dictatorship and press censorship, in spite of the downfall of the Social democracy, in spite of fratricidal war, the class struggle arises from civil peace with elemental forc...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 19 exhaustion. But even a victorious Germany, under such circumstances, even if its imperialistic war agitators should succeed in carrying on the mass murder to the absolute destruction of their opponents, even if their most daring dreams should b...

PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 21 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sustaining of the Hapsburg Monarchy and its aggrandizement by a number of new territories; finally the establishment of a fictitious integrity of Turkey, under a German protectorate e.
the conversion of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, in one form o...

23 PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE war as such, whatever its military outcome may be, is the greatest conceivable defeat of the cause of the European proletariat.
The overthrow of war, and the speedy forcing of peace, by the international revolutionary action of the proletariat,...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 25 at one and the same time. Only as the material conditions for the destruction of capitalism and the abolition of class society can the works of the capitalist triumphal march through the world bear the stamp of progress in a historical sense. I...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 27 PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL were not the greatest of all horrors, as if the praise of human slaughter in a socialist periodical were not mental Cossackdom in its very essence.
But the horrors of imperialist bestiality in Europe have had another effect, that has brought to...