580 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 581 country. On the 9th the Emperor fled from German soil and Prince Maximilian was proclaimed Regent. On Monday, the 11th, Scheidemann and Ebert demanded his resignation in the name of the German people, and Ebert was proclaimed Chancellor of the German Sociali...

582 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 583 one, then numerous Socialists to their city councils. In the national, state and municipal legislative assemblages they forced the adoption of social legislation, and the German protective factory legislation, German old age pension laws, unemployment laws a...

584 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 585 whole world was headed in the wrong direction, not only in the question of militarisin and war, but in its whole fundamental conception of the class struggle. They proclaimed the death of the second International, and, together with radical Socialists of oth...

604 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPANESE INTERPRETATION 605 in Japan there is no government for the non propertied classes. Certainly the rice riots, if they have any meaning at all, have proven that the government has failed to give to the people adequate protection, that they have risen in arms therefor...

612 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 613 system. This merely proved conclusively that the preservation of ownership of social property by the individual is incompatible with a one class system, no matter how plausible the scheme might appear on the surface.
Instead of being...

616 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 617 EDITORIALS The Bubble Has Burst ing to send it elsewhere to seek its freedom, if it is not to remain at home in privation and slavery. The mass will free itself at home, it will at last meet the problem where it originated, it will solve the antagonism between owning an...

624 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 625 as a criminal in the eyes of justice, after forty years spent in the struggle for labor, a struggle that began with a prison sentence earned in the cause of labor, he proclaimed the right of every human being to fight against capitalism and all forms of capit...

628 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 629 One Measure For All In the excitement that attended the latest trials of socialist and labor leaders in this country, one of the most shameful attacks that have ever been perpetrated against organized labor has been well nigh forgotten. Now comes the news tha...

632 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 633 the exploited classes, even on peace terms, is impossible. The delegations of the capitalist countries will not and cannot include real representatives of the working class.
Samuel Gompers, the anti Socialist, is the victim of the socialist epidemic that has ...

636 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 637 An Appeal of the Soviet Government We Pravda of August 1st issues the following appeal to the proletariat of the Entente countries, written by Lenin, Chicherin, and Trotzky: The entire capitalist press of your countries is howling with a hoarse voice, like a d...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 55 the abolition of social wrongs in the anarchistic sense, it is of the conviction that the proletariat must be prepared to use its whole power for the achievement of political equality. The political mass strike can be succesful only with...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 59 In the second year of the war Liebknecht was sent to the front as a non combatant soldier, where he was shortly afterward seriously hurt by a falling tree trunk. In March of the same year Rosa Luxemburg was sentenced to a year in prison ...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 63 Bolschewismus, der Militarismus der Faulenzer first days of the revolution, had driven everything before it.
The Majority Socialists left nothing untried to fan this resentment into an open flame. Not only did the government make use of ...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LABOR PARTY 65 Truly, the Socialist majority leaders bear upon their souls not a little of the responsibility for the dastardly murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
The Proletarian Revolution of Germany The immediate future of Germany lies shrouded in darkness. ...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LABOR PARTY 67 further. For even non Socialist workers must live, must make new and more far reaching demands in order to keep step with the constantly increasing cost of living, to offset the increasing intensity and the ravages of modern industry.
The organized capital...

DOCUMENTS 117 116 THE CLASS STRUGGLE II. The Old Party is Afraid of Bolshevism Documents Swedish Party Correspondence We print below all the documents in the negotiations that were conducted by the extended Representation of the Social Democratic Party of the Left (P. with the management of the R...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 51 military service, against war. He was among the first to recognize that militarism in Germany was more than the tool of the capitalist class, that it was becoming the spirit that dominated and controlled the very destinies of the nation....

THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. MAY JUNE, 1917 No. CONTENTS Page The Task Before Us. 14 22 33 The Russian Revolution and Its Significance.
By Bucharin The War and America. By Louis Fraina.
Majority Limitations and Minority Rights. By Friedrich Adler The Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Part...

158 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LAND QUESTION 159 will assure the success of a complete and thoroughgoing Revolution.
Let us now take up the question: What changes in the agricultural conditions of Russia have already been carried out by the Russian Revolution, and what changes are still to be wrought...

THE LAND QUESTION 147 146 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the Czar Government in 1882, with the object of aiding the peasants in the acquisition of land, and thus to avoid the impending agrarian revolution. Up to 1917 the peasants had in this manner purchased about 32, 000, 000 rubles worth of land, chiefly f...

150 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LAND QUESTION 151 The state lands or government lands of the 50 governments of European Russia alone, are 138, 000, 000 dessyatins in area; the cabinet lands in all of Russia, 68, 000, 000; the appanage lanuis about 8, 000, 000; church lands about 2, 000, 000; the monas...

352 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 353 Russian Baltic provinces. Internally, it has been proving itself in the increased activities of courts martial, and similar liberal institutions, and it has just now again proved itself in the defeat of the Prussian Equal Franchise Bill.
And let there be...

386 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOVIET RUSSIA SPEAKS TO BRITAIN 387 against the will of the people? he finds no reply. The continuance of a Government in time of revolution for eight months, without a standing army except voluntary detachments, inconsiderable in proportion to Russia area, without. police,...

6 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Socialist Congress of Copenhagen (1910) and Basle (1912. which declares that. In the event war should come notwithstanding the efforts of the Socialists to prevent it, then it becomes the duty of the Socialists to work for its speedy termination, and to use...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 103 to disregard those safeguards which the law and trade union rules have established for the protection of their lives, health and efficiency.
The super patriotic effusions of some of our labor leaders in offering to sacrifice their safeguard on the alt...