SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 21 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE war cannot be avoided. And Germany is not the only one that is preparing for it. The preparedness epidemic rages all over the world. The Socialists of most countries are affected by it. Conscription is made permanent in the United States, Great Br...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 25 nevertheless a great mistake to identify the two without further ado. For the purposes of the two are essentially different. The purposes of German Militarism under Bismarck were, primarily, to create and preserve German Unity under Prussian hegem...

SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 35 34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the other, or of diplomatic negotiations intended to give each side a breathing spell so as to recuperate for a resumption of the struggle.
No such difficulties attend complete disarmament. The peaceful nations cannot possibly be the losers by the...

17 THE PASSING OF THE NATION 16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE which the idea of nationalism has upon the civilized world. The outbreak of the Great War was accompanied by a veritable flood of nationalistic literature. The cry of Teuton versus Slav resounded from one end of the earth to the other at least in...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 25 In this connection, it is well to remember that Dr. Naumann is neither a militarist nor an imperialist in the ordinary sense of the word. On the contrary, he is a democrat, and there are people who think he is almost a Socialist. It must also be ...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 27 Why should German Bohemians or Tzechs have defended the Ridge of the Vosges. There must have been some serious interests that made these people fight these to them, at any rate non national fights; and these serious interests can be relied upon t...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 49 Political Parties in Russia By LENIN. Aids to an understanding of the proposed platform drawn up by Lenin for discussion at Bolshevik meetings. The printing of the proposed platform has thus far been held up only by the insufficient typographical resources at Petrograd. T...

38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 39 In explanation of Germany course during the Austro Serbian crisis which led to the present war, the German Emperor stated that the Serbian nationalist propaganda threatened to so weaken the Austrian Empire (militarily) that she would have been of ...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 47 46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE All these days the Duma Committee was irresolute, for the members of the committee realized that the council was the real power, that the council and not the committee had the masses behind it. True, the committee did appoint commissions to look aft...

94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 95 ple and of weakening this will in the masses of the people in the Allied countries.
But such a policy requires great diplomatic skill. For it is no easy matter to appear to be reasonable without actually committing one self to being reasonable and the Germ...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 107 case.
And then the Crown Prince spoke. And he said: My father hath ichastised you with whips, but will chastise you with scorpions. He gave you Bethmann Hollweg; but will give you Michaelis.
And the German people accepted Michaelis from the hands of the ...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DISCUSSION 109 Discussion Boudin Policy in Peace and War More deliberately than in his Socialism and War, Boudin accentuates his stand on war in a recent article, Socialist Policy in Peace and War, in the second issue of the Class Struggle. It is worth while to analyze his ...

125 CURRENT AFFAIRS 124 THE CLASS STRUGGLE thousands and even millions of men, both within Russia and outside of it, the Revolution meant a change of allegiance as far as the war is concerned, a change of the side on which they ranged themselves in their sympathies, hopes and efforts.
Whether or ...

128 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 129 trayed the class struggle and, in so doing, the decisions of the Second International, must be abandoned, the policies of the Social Imperialists and Social Patriots emphatically condemned, and the principles of the class struggle proclaimed. The future ...

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 ...

132 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 133 should we on that account neglect to give to the affairs and occurrences within the movement the necessary attention. Distrust is one of the greatest of democratic virtues; serious and honest criticism are indispensable conditions for the healthy growth ...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 83 La Vie des Mots and willfully permits the capitalist class to exploit working girls and children heartlessly and cruelly. want to see the autocratic imperialism destroyed, once and for all time, in Japan, as in Germany, for the liberation of the unhappy toiling millions. ...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OLD MASTERS 89 After the revolution of 1848 had failed to create a united Germany the German government tried to utilize the growing need of economic unity, for dynastic purposes, to create, not a united Germany, but as the then King William put it, an elongated Prussia....

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...

144 THE CLASS STR JGGLE DOCUMENTS FOR FUTURE SOC. HISTORY 145 Our entrance into the European war was instigated by the predatory capitalists in the United States who boast of the enormous profit of seven billion dollars from the manufacture and sale of munitions and war supplies and from the expo...

146 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS FOR FUTURE SOC. HISTORY 117 (a) The restriction of food exports so long as the present shortage continues, the fixing of maximum prices, and whatever measures may be necessary to prevent the food speculators from holding back the supplies now in their hands. b) Th...

182 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 183 made by the working classes of all countries, as well as the similarity of palliative measures offered by the capitalist classes as a means of pacification.
More striking proof is presented in the attitude of hostility taken by the ruling classe...

184 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 185 The ready to beat upon the head any one who shall attempt to rise to question its designs, protest its acts, or challenge its authority.
The principal one of consequence that will so question, protest and challenge, is the rising worker. It is h...

216 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 217 EDITORIALS Communism in Hungary made during the transition period for the protection of small owners of stock. f) The sozialization of foreign trade.
These are not the immediate demands comprised in the social reform planks now in the platform of our party; they are not...

218 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 219 were republic, was a liberal democrat of the finest type, honest in his intentions. But just as the Kerensky government in Russia was doomed to failure, and just as surely as the Scheidemann Ebert regime in Berlin will finally succumb to the insistence of the...