200 201 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION of his life, to have stood by Marx side for forty years, even at the price of being completely overshadowed by Marx gigantic form. Nor did he consider it to be a belated form of satisfaction, to be permitted, after the death of his friend, to be...

206 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION 207 cial circumstances. The paper will probably appear twice a week, beginning with next month, and it will do good work. We have done all that is necessary to insure its distribution amongst the workers in the urban and industrial centers. To this ...

208 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 209 Thanks to the International Bureau for the services it has rendered in the transmission of my correspondence to the Pravda and svestia. As a measure of prudence, will transmit to you all information concerning France and typewritten reports by numbered copies. GUILBEAUX...

211 MANIFESTO AND PROGRAM 210 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sions to democracy on the one hand, and its commercial rivalries, armament rings and standing armies on the other, all based on the exploitation of the working class and the division of the loot, was cast into the furnace of war. Two things only c...

EDITORIALS 233 232 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Mass Strikes. he was employed as the American representative of the great Demidow Steels Works of Russia. He combines therefore a knowledge of business affairs with an impeccable record as a So cialist and revolutionist, a combination that will make him an id...

238 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 239 without sparing ourselves or anything or anyone else. For this we are working, erring and suffering with the eager hope for success, leaving to the just decision of history all our acts; follow us in our struggle against the old order, in the work for a new fo...

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...

338 339 CURRENT AFFAIRS THE CLASS STRUGGLE Many things have changed since those paragraphs were written at St. Louis. But the facts upon which they were based have not changed. The argument still remains valid, and the fear they express is still real.
This fear may perhaps not be decisive of our ...

342 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 343 Mr. Wilson will probably neither veto nor sign the bill. If this should be the case the bill, after 10 days, automatically becomes a law. But since it is an Administration bill we are convinced that the President will finally affix his signature to a mea...

572 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 573 Letter to the Polish Socialists By KARL MARX, FRIEDRICH ENGELS, Paul LAFARGUE, LESSNER Translated from the Polish by Dr. John Kallen Most of them have died, rotted, vanished, dropped out of sight, but Tisza survives. We wish to state this emphatically, even if Count Bur...

545 IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 544 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the circumstances of this arrest and the conditions of our confinement, see the letter addressed to the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, printed herein below. This letter wrote on a Danish steamer after my release from British captivity, intend...

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...

598 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE TORRENT OF THE REVOLUTION 599 beautiful things, she, the source of Life and Poetry, cries, Kill!
Hang! Shoot!
We are here face to face with a fearful and gloomy contradiction, that may well destroy the aureole with which History has surrounded woman. Can it be that w...

278 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 279 way.
Democracy. The mass strike as general strike was exalted by the French syndicalists as a means of winning complete liberty. The working class, which, up to this time, had battled only politically in parliaments, began to reflect on thei...

288 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 289 fies simultaneously the intellectual control of the masses of the people, even in the most highly developed capitalist countries.
Under the pressure of misery and want, under the convulsing of the masses by such means as the war, all the opp...

314 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY 315 system. They defend with all their might the individualistic form of consumption which was a necessity only then when individualism existed also in the production, which was justified at a time when our present form of machinery was not yet dreamed of...

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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...

194 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SELF DETERMINATION OF NATIONS 195 And was not the Bonaparte army released, and the support of the Prussian army against the Paris Commune assured by the famous contract between Jules Favre, Thiers and Co. and Bismark? This historical evidence led Karl Marx, 45 years ago, to...

218 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE IN RUSSIA 219 clusions of a profoundly revolutionary character. The only thing their structure lacks is the driving force of a revolutionary policy. The government, for the most part capitalistic, could not possibly give birth to a system that was diametrically op...

366 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 367 ments, its policy was a call for the dropping of all war aims which might prolong the war. Official Austria has adopted a more conservative philosophy, the Catholic pacifism of the Papal Note. It is lukewarm and uncertain about the democratic theory of self de...

402 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 403 fall of the Yamamoto ministry, and a scandal at the Waka Matsu Steel works resulted in the suicide of the chief engineer, who was at the same time a high military officer.
The masses are beginning to see the light. In the Far Eastern Review of...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 13 The State is the Instrument of the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class For the maintenance of a special social power standing above society, there is necessary the imposition of taxes and obligations toward the state. Ruling by social power and by...

34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 35 Russia and Germany, concerning the Bolsheviki (although he, too, has jubilated over the Socialist Republics in Germany and Russia, in the approved style. he accepted the war for democracy (indeed, much worse, declared in April this year, tha...

BERNE POST MORTEM CONFERENCE 161 160 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Later when the question of prisoners of war was under discussion, and the German majority delegates were bitter in their denunciation of the Allied governments for refusing to liberate German prisoners of war, thus provoking the French deleg...

168 169 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPAN AND CHINA the Chinese have realized the value of their national resources, they will become a powerful influence among nations.
Most nearly related to the Chinese are the Japanese. Racially these two nationalities have so much in common that either can be easily a...