404 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 405 The Chief Task of Our Day By LENIN Poor thou art, rich thou art, Strong thou art and weak thou art, Oh Mother Russia. of one over the other. Awakened India will not be dominated by the English, awakened China will not be satisfied with her present status, because no rac...

406 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CHIEF TASK OF OUR DAY 407 has communicated to our national productive forces to create a really rich and powerful Russia.
Russia may become such if we cast aside all discouragement and all oratory, if we strain every nerve and tighten every muscle, if we understand that...

418 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 419 torial problems might be put into effect, temporarily; but its demand for no economic war after the war is utterly incompatible with the requirements of Imperialism. Economic war, waged to the point where it flares up into the military struggle, i...

422 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 423 of the sovereign right of the people; the suppression of secret diplomacy, to be replaced by the conduct of foreign policy under the control of popular Legislatures, and the publication of all treaties, which must never be in contravention of the ...

424 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 425 Imperialism, and Imperialism is necessary to the existence of Capitalism; the state is repressive and undemocratic because that is essential to Capitalism, as are all the other evils of Capitalism.
The democratization of the state depends upon the...

LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 429 428 THE CLASS STRUGGLE has been one of adapting itself to the new conditions, of working on the basis of the modification of class antagonisms, of subtly, but none the less actually, becoming part and parcel of imperialistic State Capitalism.
The epoch of Imperialism is...

446 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 447 want in Russia is the crushing of the Soviet Government as such, regardless of the fact that it is anti German and regardless of all proofs of its constructive ability. As the Soviet Government obviously is supported by the great majority of the people, y...

451 AN OPEN LETTER 450 THE CLASS STRUGGLE thing to your society, even when the greatest class issues are involved. have been trying to do a work of persuasion, employing all possible tactfulness and consideration of the pecularities of the situation and of your psychology. have been doing it in t...

486 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 487 Repudiation of the loans which were contracted by the Czar government upon account of the Russian people, thereby to deal a blow to international capital as one of the factors chiefly responsible for the war, Arming of the laborers and peasants ...

488 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 489 II To subordinate their personal and group interests to the interests of all the working people of Russia and the whole world. To defend the Republic of the Soviets, the only socialistic bulwark in the capitalistic world, from the attacks of int...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

558 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FINNISH DOCUMENT 559 finally caused the Bolshevik Government to recognize. Finland bourgeoisie sold this independence to German Imperialism at the price of the blood of the Finnish proletariat, but by this act it tore out social patriotism by the roots from the minds of the...

602 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPANESE INTERPRETATION 603 in the mines, and many millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed, before the wage increase demanded by the workers was granted. In Kobe the populace burnt down stores, offices, and even the residences of the wealthy rice speculators. T...

38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 39 antagonism of the proletariat to the bourgeois policy is not disorganized, inchoate, unaware of means and purposes: but organized and disciplined, the instincts of the masses unerringly pointing the way to future action, in spite of immediate he...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 41 tions and control of industry weights the balance in favor of the ruling class. Revolutions march from action to action; action, more action, again action, supplemented by an audacity that shrinks at nothing, these are the tactics of the proleta...

44 45 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION the war; peace negotiations should not be carried on by and with bourgeois governments, but with the proletariat in each of the warring countries.
French Commune of 1871, Marx shows that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready made...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 51 tionary policy was abandoned, and the Council co operated with the infamous gathering of the social patriots at Stockholm, against the protests of the Bolsheviki, who insisted on co operation only with revolutionary Socialism. It required only t...

54 55 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTIAN their minds. And that is essential for the state. These words epitomize the utter failure, immediately, of the Moscow Conference. But reaction had scored.
And then Kerensky returned to Petrograd, and secretly plotted drastic action against the R...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PLECHANOV AND BRESHKOVSKAYA 109 ment for an immediate peace. Both papers are fighting to check the widening and deepening of the revolution.
Because of our feeling of profound respect for the past of Plechanov and Breshkovskaya, we cannot lightly pass over what Plechanov an...