270 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RADICALISM IN CALIFORNIA 271 the particular form of exploitation by which it, in turn, was being victimized. It represented that portion of the petit bourgeois who saw that the evil is not so much political as economic in its nature, and that political reforms, such as woma...

272 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 273 The Development of Socialism from Science into Action By KARL RADEK The Development of Socialism from Utopianism into a Science What is Communism? This question is answered by the young Friedrich Engels in a sketch of the Communist Manifesto...

292 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 293 powder, the international proletariat will itself proudly wear in the near future. He who is frightened at this face or turns away from it, as from a Medusa head, will turn away from the proletarian revolution, and away from Socialism. But t...

304 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE 305 ACT IX.
The Former. Rococo.
Mogol. Rococo, you re an ass. disavow you.
Lama. We disavow you.
Mogol. But a wise monarch will not permit anyone to leave his presence discontented. Behold, Rococo!
Lama. The Order of Seraphims!
Mogol. As a token of my personal appreciat...

186 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 187 The worker must be provided with the explanation of the rise and function of the League of Nations, together with an explanation of the forces affecting its disintegration. Emphasis must be laid upon the next step in the evolution of internation...

222 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 223 Hungary. We call upon the Tchecho Slovak peasants and workers to shake off the yoke of their oppressors. Although we are determined to defend our republic.
against all attacks, we hereby declare our firm desire to make peace as soon as it is possible to do so...

228 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 229 compromise; to compromise is to betray revolutionary Socialism. On with the war against moderate Socialism in our party! Turn to the left.
Eugene Debs, a Revolutionist The revolutionary Socialist who would promote its policy must align himself with the left w...

EDITORIALS 231 230 THE CLASS STRUGGLE With these splendid words Debs has set us a standard that we must uphold and carry out. To accept less, to ask for less, were an insult to the man whose courage and whose cheerful readiness to endure the fullest measure of sacrifice with his comrades has stru...

234 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 235 The Butte strike was equally important and dynamic; it was directed by an actual Soldiers and Workmen Council; it showed the to be a real industrial force; and again it was the conservative craft unions that broke the strike. In these two strikes there was ma...

326 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 327 press their opinion freely in speech and writing, for that power of capital which enabled it to degrade the press to an agency for disseminating the capitalistic ideologies and obscuring the self consciousness of the proletarians, the dependency of the press u...

404 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 405 isting between the bourgeois and the citizen, between the member of bourgeois society and his political lion skin.
This contradiction of secular life to which the Jewish question eventually reduces itself, the relation of the political sta...

THE TWILIGHT OF LEADERSHIP 407 406 THE CLASS STRUGGLE in the form of religion does not yet profess it in the form of the state, for it still takes a religious attitude toward religion, that is, it is not the real fulfillment of the human basis of religion, because it still hinges upon immorality,...

WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 367 366 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Work, Discipline, and Order to Save the Socialist Soviet Republic An Address by Leon Trotzky at the City Conference of the Russian Communist Party in Moscow, March 28th, 1918.
Comrades: The conference has met in a moment of profound internal ...

368 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 369 possessed certain formal advantages over the solder peasant mass in their ability to express their thoughts more or less articulately, their knowledge of reading and writing, and the like.
For this reason the cadres of the compromise parties ...

402 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 403 dom of men. Just as Christ is the mediator upon whom men impose the whole burden of their religious prepossession, so the state is the mediator that is made to bear all their irreligion, all their human freedom from bias, The political exa...

DOCUMENTS 119 118 THE CLASS STRUGGLE support even if they should be of the limited nature proposed by you would in such meetings require detailed examination, We suggest the desirability of an carly answer to this communication.
Stockholm, Nov. 16, 1918.
For the Executive Committee.
a National Co...

133 CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN THE SOVIET 132 THE CLASS STRUGGLE spirits, angels, saints, etc. in short religion. The masses of the people have become accustomed to believe in these things, and yet, if we approach these beliefs sensibly, and come to understand where religion comes from, and why religio...

134 135 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN THE SOVIET state. These are the so called officiating angels and archangels. the cherubim, the seraphim, the angels of the third and various other degrees. The very word chin (degree) reminds us of chinovnik (office holder, bureaucrat. and both word...

136 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 137 CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN THE SOVIET insolvency. But the fact is that the bourgeois State wholeheartedly places all of its means at the disposition of its church hierarchy, which in turn with ardent zeal supports the bourgeois power. Under the Czar the Russian priests not on...

138 139 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WHAT THE UNDER CLASS ANSWERS that is the method of capitalism. Culture for all, spiritual deliverance from the yoke of capital that is the watchword of the party of the working class, the Communist Party.
manner there was created a monopoly of education. The obtaining o...

162 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIAN TALE 163 ment have convinced them of the foolhardiness of committing themselves to an anti Bolshevik declaration before a proletariat that is looking more and more to the Russian republic for inspiration. This accounts for the minimum of time allotted to the discuss...

172 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EXPLOITER AND EXPLOITED 173 pound of meat is a pound of meat the well known standpoint of Shakespeare Shylock.
ably in a new Socialist world. The wars of the past have shown that their peoples are not enemies, but friends. Already the Soviets of Russia are extending the han...

174 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EXPLOITER AND EXPLOITED 175 Kautsky is as far from Marx and Engels as earth is from heaven, as the liberal bourgeois from the proletarian revolutionist.
The pure democracy and simple democracy of which Kautsky speaks, is only another way of expressing the conception free pe...

176 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EXPLOITER AND EXPLOITED 177 the sweetest fruits of existence, but who now are doomed by the mob to destruction and poverty or to common work.
Behind the exploiters stand also the great mass of the petitbourgeoisie, who as years of historical experience in every country have...

72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 73 And of course, no difficulty was raised as to the question whether the fee received by Marx from the American paper corresponded to the literary and scientific value of his contributions. capitalist newspaper calculates on market prices, and in bourgeois society...