68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 69 Karl Marx ises final victory to all true genius, to Faust melancholy reflection: By FRANZ MEHRING Translator Note.
Those few who ever had a trace of it, And in their folly hid it not; Revealed their souls, their visions to the rabble: The cross, the stake, have ...

72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 73 And of course, no difficulty was raised as to the question whether the fee received by Marx from the American paper corresponded to the literary and scientific value of his contributions. capitalist newspaper calculates on market prices, and in bourgeois society...

74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 75 KARL MARX her; her sufferings from the indescribable humiliations, tortures, and terrors, which were connected with their position, must be much greater than his, especially since she has not the possibility of seeking refuge in the realm of science, which often serves hi...

80 81 DETERMINISM THE CLASS STRUGGLE society which cannot last. Where the proletariat is transient, that is to say, where it disappears by a change of class relations, the class system is again made tolerable for a time instead of being abolished. The first two proletarian situations, that of the...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 83 and gave to society a one class arrangement with relative freedom; moreover, it must be borne in mind that an industrial proletariat did not yet exist, that there was only an agricultural proletariat. Marx said as late as 1848: It is quite evident and equally ...

84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 85 the one class system will then be more productive since it does away with a system of production based on artificial curtailment.
This interpretation sins in overlooking the fact that when the capitalist class is forced to limit production, it does not see the...

DETERMINISM 87 86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE same by borrowing the equipment of the other advanced nations, if not betrayed previously by the world proletariat.
This same new application of an old principle is equally true for all backward nations and colonies. They must abolish class rule as a means of ...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 89 THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY The Principles of Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship By LEON TROTZKY sailors, who had played such an important role in revolutionary events, were almost unanimously on our side. The Right Social Revolutionists, moreover, had to leave the So...

90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 91 have found support in that class which constitutes the backbone of the Revolution. No. The real kernel of the class revolution has come into irreconcilable conflict with its democratic shell. By this situation the fate of the Constituent ...

92 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 93 co operation of the two parties, while not an ideal state, is the only condition that makes a Socialist government possible under the given circumstances. Every attempt to overthrow this compromise government only sets one part of the pro...

94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 95 EDITORIALS control, and then the government, would mean to begin building the house at the roof. We were prevented from establishing a modern uniform government under capitalist rule, because of the maintenance of our two dozen kings and princes and the slavish servility ...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DAY OF THE PEOPLE sia, and the near future will determine whether revolution has for once been really triumphant or whether sudden reaction has again won the day.
In the struggle in Russia the revolution has thus far triumphed for the reason that it has not compromised. T...

THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 9 THE CLASS STRUGGLE site (the class opposed to it. is altogether beyond the comprehension of the petit bourgeois democracy. Their relation to the state is one of the most striking indications that our and Mensheviki are not socialists at all (we Bolsheviki have repeatedl...

15 THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ther presentation of the views of Marx and Engels on the state as it now is.
The final summing up of his views is given by Engels in his most popular work, as follows: ment with the industrialists, or merely a friendly understanding? What is the r...

16 17 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION The Dying Out of the State and Revolution By Force Engels words concerning the dying out of the state have now such wide circulation, they are so frequently quoted, and they so sharply indicate the nature of the customary misrepresentation of Marx...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 19 tation of Marxism, acceptable only to the bourgeoisie, and founded in theory on a complete ignoring of the important circumstances and reflections expressed in the summarizing passage from Engels that is above quoted in full.
First. At the very be...

21 THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sighs does he admit the possibility that, in order to overthrow the system of the exploiters, it may be necessary, unfortunately, mind you. to use force; but every application of force demoralizes, as it were, him who uses it. And this is said in ...

23 22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Lenin Versus Wilson By Karl ISLAND (STOCKHOLM)
ty it gives no complete or revolutionary understanding whatever of the process of social evolution.
We have already said above, and will show more in detail in our further exposition, that the teaching of Marx and Engels conc...

28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISMI 29 American proletariat is not possessed of reserves for action, but because of the organizations of this proletariat. This is one aspect of our problems.
The American proletariat has an inspiring history of aggressive struggles. The grea Home...

32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 33 revolution was impossible in Russia, because of its economically undeveloped condition and because the proletariat was not organized into industrial unions; that the day of the Bolsheviki victory was the day of their defeat; that the Bolshev...

564 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 565 blood; awful and immeasurable is the guilt that taints those who wrote the Serbian note, which was hailed as a salvation.
At last! a real word well spoken, it was said. And not only by Christian Conservative groups, but by nearly all the liberal...

588 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 589 hold upon the people of Russia to the fact that it stands ready, at all times, to carry out their demands. In Germany it is possible that the same conditions may bring about exactly the opposite effect. The soldiers and the working class, according to all in...

590 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 591 war may have disturbed but has not broken, is a formidable enemy, an enemy that will fight without mercy and without quarter, once it feels that it has again gained a foothold in the country.
feels itself at the mercy of the proletariat, just as the class co...

606 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 607 Economic and Menshevik Determinism By MAURICE BLUMLEIN known socialists were kept in confinement in their own homes during the progress of the riots by their supporters, as it was well known that the government was prepared to arrest them on the slightest pretext.
In Os...

608 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 609 inevitable and economically determined and pre determined. We shall have to arrive at a clear understanding of exactly what is fore ordained by the Class Struggle, by historic inevitability and economic determinism.
CLASS RELATIONS R...