430 431 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM perialism means Capitalism on the verge of collapse, Capitalism being strangled by its own contradictions, History abounds with illustrations of a system apparently supreme at the moment when internal conditions and contradictions were about to de...

438 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 439 Allies naturally suspected every approach on the part of the Bolsheviki as an effort to obtain information for the German army. But even that is no excuse at all. For more than a year the press has been shouting that Lenine and Trotzky are paid agents of ...

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...

454 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 455 Reconstruction in Russia resentative of the Finnish Workers Republic, am officially sending your Government a proposition of mediation between America and the Russian Soviets. Not that for a moment believe that such a proposition will be enterta...

456 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 457 Capitalism. The revolutionary Socialist assumes that the process must be a revolutionary process operating upon the basis of the proletarian state a process of reconstruction which alone annihilates Capitalism and introduces Socialism. Moreover,...

458 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 459 sion of the masses, its bureaucracy, and its anti proletarian character. The new state is the state of the organized producers; as the old state was an instrument for the coercion of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, so the new state is an ins...

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...

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...

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...

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...

318 THE CLASS STRUGGLE APPEAL BY THE COMMISSARY 319 Both these ideas were not of the people. But the masses were won over in spite of as yet feeble warnings of the only party which had grasped the meaning of events their future force the hidden hopes of the soul of the people.
The Intelligentsia,...

320 THE CLASS STRUGGLE APPEAL BY THE COMMISSARY 321 Is there a gulf which cannot be bridged between the petite bourgeoisie and the masses? Is the means ineffective which makes the Intelligentsia socialist only in words and in reality more sympathetic to the exploiters than to the exploited? Yes, ...

358 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 359 Documents for Future Socialist History make the power of the toiling masses secure and to hinder the restoration of the rule of exploiters the toiling classes will be armed and a Red Guard, composed of workingmen and peasants, formed, and the exploiting classe...

360 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 361 Supporting the Soviet rule and accepting the orders of the Council of the People Commissaries, the Constitutional Assembly acknowledges that its duty is to outline a form for the reorganization of society on a socialistic basis.
Striving at the same time to or...

362 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 363 (The New Republic)
Austria Pacifism By BAILSFORD (London)
supporters of the bourgeoisie, and the Left Wing, supporters of Socialism. Therefore this Constitutional Assembly, which was intended to be the crown of the bourgeois parliamentary republic, because of ...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 59 This was why the Bolsheviki did not wait for the Constituent Assembly to convene before pressing their demands. The fact of complete revolution had first to be accomplished; and they overthrew the government of Kerensky through the action of the...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 61 transition period, whose state can be nothing else than the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. The theory of Marx is the practice of the proletarian revolution in Russia. The dictatorship of the proletariat ruthlessly annihilates the...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 63 war against world Imperialism. This was not the war Kerensky waged, nor is it a war desired by the Allies. Peace is a means to an end: the Social Revolution in Europe. The international policy of revolutionary Russia is to arouse this proletaria...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 65 As the tactics of the proletarian revolution in Russia are synthesized into the general mass action of the proletariat, so its internal and international policy are synthesized into the aspiration and the struggle for the Social Revolution of th...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE COMMON ENEMY 77 bourgeoisie against the remnants of feudalism in the form of aristocratic and monarchical institutions. Accordingly, the Socialist theorists intellectuals of that epoch put very little value upon political forms, and generally counseled the workers again...