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...

272 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 273 publish it in hamlet, in town, from country to country, from nation to nation: that there is no hope for the sons of labor until those whose interests are identical with theirs, have an equal right to decide what laws shall be passed, what pla...

274 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 275 This organization came into existence in the beginning of. 1845, and called itself the Democratic Friends of all Nations. It was not particularly successful.
In the summer and the fall of the same year a number of international celebrations we...

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 ...

280 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 281 99 of labor. He described the purpose of capitalist development in the years after 1845. He described the terrible misery that existed on the one hand, the mad thirst for wealth of the ruling class on the other. It is a great fact, that the mi...

282 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 283 make common cause with the Irish, but must even take the initiative in dissolving the union between Ireland and England, to put in its place a freer, more liberal relationship. He insisted that this solution alone is commensurate with the inte...

284 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 285 difficult to understand their importance in view of the then existing state of affairs. On the European continent there were no unions after the pattern of the English trade unions. The Marxian resolution demanding the furtherance of the trade...

286 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 287 longed to the long dead German Empire. And, therefore, it is maintained that this piece of earth, and the human beings that have grown up upon it, must be confiscated as an eternal possession of the German nation. But if the map of Europe is t...

288 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 289 The new Americanism By JAMES ONEAL That is the lesson of the Paris Commune that fell only because this solidarity was lacking in the workers of the other countries.
And in closing, Marx said in this speech, which, in a way, marked the end of his official activity as mem...

290 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NEW AMERICANISM 291 political parties in the United States. This freak was known as the American Party or the Know Nothings. It proclaimed itself distinctly American and opposed to the influence of foreigners in politics and education. Its text book, The Sons of the Sir...

292 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NEW AMERICANISM 293 these in purity of their American stock, having from to 10 per cent. From these figures it will be seen that the southern tier of states still retains an overwhelming majority of people whose blood is untainted by contact with foreigners.
Contrast th...

294 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NEW AMERICANISM 295 industrial progress that not until the capitalists of the foreign North invested their capital in the South has the latter made progress since reconstruction days. Just in proportion as northern capitalists have fertilized southern establishments has...

296 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PONTIUS PILATE SCHEIDEMANN 297 Pontius Pilate Scheidemann By Dr. Hans Block (Leipzig. Within a few days the curtain will fall upon the fifth act of that great tragedy, the Russian Revolution. What has happened in Russia was not the intention of the Social Democracy. Before ...

298 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FINLAND LABOR REPUBLIC 299 The Rape of Finland Labor Republic By SANTERI NUORTEVA Representative in the United States of the Provisional Government of the People Republic of Finland few years ago Jack London book, The Iron Heel.
created quite a sensation. At a time when the...

300 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FINLAND LABOR REPUBLIC 301 uprising of the people took place, beginning in a general strike.
The White Guard Government fled to the sparsely settled northern part of Finland, leaving the capital and all the agencies of government, and all the popular manufacturing districts...

302 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FINLAND LABOR REPUBLIC 303 avoided, do not deny. In any country in revolution a certain rough element, devoid of principles, inevitably bobs up, to take advantage of the situation for purposes of plunder. The Provisional Government leaders had taken stringent measures to pu...

304 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 305 The Disarmament Cry By LENIN land. The Russian Government no longer appealed to the Finnish bourgeoisie as an insurance company against radical legislation, on the contrary it was the most formidable supporter of absolute proletarian rule in Finland. So the Finnish bour...

306 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DISARMAMENT CRY 307 dressed chiefly to the present governments of the imperialistic great powers, is a vulgar piece of opportunism, of bourgeois pacifism, actually calculated in spite of the good intentions of the gentle Kautskians to divert the workers from the class s...

308 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DISARMAMENT CRY 309 word must be: arm the proletariat so that it may defeat, expropriate, and disarm the bourgeoisie. This is the only possible policy of the revolutionary class, a policy arising directly from the actual evolution of capitalistic militarism, in fact, di...

310 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DISARMAMENT CRY 311 everything warlike simply demand disarmament? Never will the women of an oppressed class that is really revolutionary be content with such a base inaction. They will say to their sons. Soon you will be a man. They will give you arms. Bear them and le...

312 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DISARMAMENT CRY 313 and this was done both unofficially and (in the Basel manifesto)
officially.
The chief trouble about the disarmament demand is precisely in the fact that it ignores all the concrete questions of the revolution. Or have the advocates of disarmament ch...

314 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DISARMAMENT CRY 315 small states which have for some time held aloof from the bloody world highway of war, and hope to continue to enjoy this privilege of non participation. Anyone who wishes to convince himself on this point, needs only to consider, for example, the re...

316 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 317 Need we point out that these anti militarists, who are the advocates of disarmament, not in the small countries, but in the large ones, are really the worst kind of opportunists? And yet, they are theoretically entirely in the right in considering armed uprisings as one...