A FINNISH DOCUMENT 557 556 THE CLASS STRUGGLE also to be issued in pamphlet form; we therefore limit ourselves here to presenting only its main points. Finnish Document By HÖGLUND (Stockholm)
The Finnish Social Democrats recently held a congress at Moscow, in which the program and guiding lines o...

554 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 555 Handing out to us with one hand the papers entitling us to a safe conduct to Russia and demonstrating thereby its loyalty towards the amnesty which to them appeared so unreliable, the consulate could with its other hand furnish its secret informatio...

IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 553 552 THE CLASS STRUGGLE into his office and, with his usual Anglo African style, told him, that we were to be put on a Danish steamer to be sent to Russia. From this you will see, Mr. Minister, how our allies liberated us after a month confinement.
If England seized us as ...

550 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 551 emigrants, rebels against legal authorities and therefore a camp for war prisoners was the most natural place for us to live in.
On April 5th we made an attempt to wire to the Russian government. Our telegrams were passed. During the entire period o...

548 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 549 lice. But this did not prevent the investigating officers McCann and Westwood from gathering information about us among other passengers, for instance, from Mr. Fundaminsky, these officers insisting at the same time that was a terrible socialist. Th...

546 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 547 To the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dear Sir: jority of the German social democracy. Having been published in Zurich at the beginning of the War, this pamphlet was smuggled by Swiss Socialists into Germany and there it was spread by the same social...

545 IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 544 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the circumstances of this arrest and the conditions of our confinement, see the letter addressed to the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, printed herein below. This letter wrote on a Danish steamer after my release from British captivity, intend...

542 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 543 In British Captivity By LEON TROTZKY. consider it at this time a matter of political necessity to publish the documents bearing upon my imprisonment by the British for the period of one month. The bourgeois pressthe same press which has been spreadi...

540 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 541 individualist system of capitalist production and the social and political subordination of the toiling masses. In national affairs the party broad aim is to secure for the producers by hand or brain the full fruits of their industry, and the most equit...

538 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 539 tice to keep the millions of soldiers supplied with food and deathdealing implements, and to furnish the other millions of noncombatants behind the lines with the necessities that the insatiable monster of modern war keeps calling for and must have.
The...

536 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 537 Germany may be cited as the highest development of State Control with, of course, reservations, the nearest approach to State Socialism, including many of the evils that would go with an efficiently organized society of that form.
There is in Germany th...

534 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 535 Bridging the Gap of State Socialism By WILLIAM FIELDING There has been discussion without end on the question of State Socialism or State Capitalism, which is a more accurate term for what the modus operandi implies and its relation to the achievement o...

532 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 533 magic, complete in every detail, as Minerva sprang from Jupiter head.
While the old bourgeoisie democratic constitutions, for instance, proclaimed formal equality and the right of free assemblage, the constitution of the Soviet Republic...

530 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 531 because they seem so simple and unpretentious, because they take place in the everyday life of the factory districts or in se cluded villages, because they are the deeds of people who are not in the habit of proclaiming their every succ...

528 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 529 that he knows only one war that is sanctified and justified from the standpoint of the proletariat: the war against the capitalist class, the war for the liberation of mankind from wage slavery. am not surprised that this fearless man w...

526 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 527 Nevski Prospect. He is no revolutionist who would have the revolution of the proletariat only under the condition that it proceed smoothly and in an orderly manner, that guarantees against defeat be given beforehand, that the revolution...

524 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 525 England and Germany have not hesitated to ruin a whole of row of nations, from Belgium and Servia to Palestine and Mesopotamia. Shall we then hesitate to act in the name of the liberation of the workers of the world from the yoke of cap...

522 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 523 tive forces of organized human labor, by utilizing machines and all the wonders of technique America has taken the first place among free and civilized nations. But at the same time America, like a few other nations, has become characte...

THE CLAJ STRUGGLE Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 431 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editor. LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. II DECEMBER, 1918 No.
45 A Letter to American Workingmen By LENIN.
Moscow, Augu...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. II DECEMBER, 1918 No. CONTENTS Page Letter to American Workingmen.
By Lenin.
521 533 Bridging the Gap of State Socialism.
By William Fielding 534 541 In British Captivity. By Leon Trotzky. 542 555 Finnish Document. By Höglund. 556 559 The Awakening of Austria. By Victor Ad...

THE CLAY STANGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. II DECEMBER, 1918 No. A Letter to American Workingmen By LENIN In British Captivity By LEON TROTZKY The Awakening of Austria By VICTOR ADLER New Germany By LUDWIG LORE In the Torrent of the Revolution By MAXIM GORKI Price, 25 Cents SOCIALI...

520 THE CLASS STRUGGLE policy of Imperialism. True enough, the Agreement declares. The Governments of the United States and Japan deny that they have any purpose to infringe in any way on the independence or territorial integrity of China. But since Japan voluntarily accepted the policy of the op...

518 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 519 nation, and undisputably recognized by the law of nations. The problem of foreign capital is a crucial problem in Mexico, the prevailing conditions making it practically an appanage of international Imperialism. The raw materials and natural wealth of Mexico ...

516 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 517 Imperialism; organization and steady leadership are prime requirements, and under our democratic system this cannot be furnished by changing party governments. This is precisely the important characteristic of Imperialism, the reaction against democracy and t...

514 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 515 realizes, moreover, the tendency toward the amalgamation of Capitalism and Imperialism into State Capitalism. From a technical and banking standpoint, it might have been a better system to have one central bank with branches. Centralization is always an econo...