502 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 503 acter of these groups than were the Russian Socialists when Root and Russel brought their message to the Russian proletariat.
But this conception of the work of the committee became even more broadly defined when it reached the European shores. According to a...

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...

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...

182 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 183 Russia between the two contending imperialistic camps, and thus on their part do their share in subduing the power of the Russian labor movement.
Let me then say, here and now, that the German imperialists never will control Russia. ...

188 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRAGEDY 189 Russian Revolution. But they ought to know that their hopes of national independence are intimately bound up with the Russian Revolution that the only way in which they can secure their independence is by their standing by Russia and not by their separating ...

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192 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 193 Self Determination of Nations and Self Defense land into German slavery. They may be forced to stand by and see them carried off into slavery by force majore. But they cannot sign a deed selling them into slavery.
But here something quite unexpected happened. Somethin...

196 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SELF DETERMINATION OF NATIONS 197 In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self defense. Every socialist policy that depends upon this determining historic milieu, that is willing to fix its policies in the world whirlpool from the point of view ...

216 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE IN RUSSIA 217 geois in the presence of the sanctity of state power, which was perfectly transparent in the case of the populists (laborites. was veiled, in the case of the menshevik patriots, by doctrinaire notions as to the inadmissibility of having socialists as...

236 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 237 Documents for Future Socialist History is merely a means to an end the end being the realization of our several national objects. Your national objects may be of a different kind than mine. Your situation makes you disinterested in the acquisition of territory, at least...

240 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 241 manner by a backward majority out in the provinces it is quite possible that the threatening elements seek to retain their position by working for complete independence for the provinces, aye, for the communes, as for example the Bakunin adherents in Spain in ...

260 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 261 KARL MARX By LUDWIG LORE ever In the midst of the bloodiest slaughter the world seen we have celebrated the centenary of the birth of the man who hurled the words Workers of all countries, unite, into the world.
And yet we know that the teachings of Karl Marx ...

262 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 263 into direct contact with the socialist labor movement. At that time it was still a secret organization. In his writings he relentlessly attacked all radicalism and socialism that failed to take account of the political struggles of the times or deemed itself s...

268 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 269 to make only slow, hardly noticeable progress, as was the case at the time when his Capital was being written, this is no cause for despair. He recognized that the conditions for the realization of the socialist goal are created, as a historical necessity, by ...

270 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 271 Marx and the International By HERMANN SCHLUETER fully expressed the needs of the times, because an international union of labor had to arise to take up arms against the internationalism of capital. Therefore it re echoed, from North to South, from East to West, like a t...

276 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 277 ened. In reactionary Central Europe the remaining walls of mediaeval craft domination were rent asunder. Freedom of movement, freedom of labor were victorious over ancient craft rules.
The free play of economic forces began. Capital started on...

278 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 279 The Inaugural Address, this first official declaration of the new organization, still lacks, as Marx himself remarked, the old daring language.
the impossibility of accepting their proposed programs, he brought in his Inaugural Address to the ...

96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 97 future. And this dictatorship of the ruling class is permanent in its character.
The essential characteristic of autocracy in Germany is not its feudal remnants, but the new form of autocracy produced by Imperialism and State Socialism. What makes a Cap...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 107 explains my act that there is in Austria to day no authority that is competent concerning Austrian constitutionality.
Everyone in Austria says: That does not concern me, am not competent. The responsibility rests with him who has enacted this imperial decree. And...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 109 But in the course of developments this war has evolved a change of functions in the conception of Fatherland.
In former times there were no fatherlands, but simply nations which had to be governed. Since the 70 the ideal of a Lational state has come to life in th...

126 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 127 and bulldoze the Russian Revolution, the ruling powers of the Entente have decided to bow to the inevitable. This is the meaning of that truly remarkable passage in the speech of that most astute of Ally statesmen, Mr. Lloyd George, at Glasgow on june 29...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 131 130 THE CLASS STRUGGLE of war.
a spirit of pessimism that manifested itself in a policy of narrow, middle class opportunism. The small incidental work of reform became, under his leadership, the centre of gravity of the whole Socialist movement; compromises were made the B of ...

138 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 139 But even the support of the Gompers machine would not alter the certainty that the firm Spargo, Russell Co. will take its place in the long list of American reform parties that are constantly springing up out of our fertile American soil, giving place, a...

140 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 141 they are praised and blamed by these papers. If refusing to join the second provisional Government, if the latter declared the war an Imperialistic war, Tscheidse was in harmony with the proletarian policy. But the fact that Tscheidse participated in the...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 53 52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE prisoned political agitators, suppressed free speech and free press.
Whether we agree with the action of the council or not, the circumstances that led to these acts must be understood. The council acted as it did to save the revolution.
The revolut...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 55 war problem will therefore be solved (if it can be solved at all without the co operation of the revolutionary proletariat of the other warring nations) on the basis of the no annexations, no indemnities formula. True, the bourgeoisie is imperialist...