EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE 224 225 tionary government has appointed a commissariat for housing problems, which has gone at once to work not only to formulate, but to put into immediate practice a thorough going system of housing reform. According to the conditions laid out by this commission n...

226 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 227 New York locals, which are dominated either by the right or by the center, a mass movement of the membership has produced the organization of a Left Wing Section, the Manifesto and Program of which have already been adopted by a number of locals of the party....

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 59 In the second year of the war Liebknecht was sent to the front as a non combatant soldier, where he was shortly afterward seriously hurt by a falling tree trunk. In March of the same year Rosa Luxemburg was sentenced to a year in prison ...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 61 all ranks came out with counter revolutionary sentiments and proposals under the spiritual protection of the government that retained them in power in spite of all protests, showed the hopelessness of such an alliance, and finally led th...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 63 Bolschewismus, der Militarismus der Faulenzer first days of the revolution, had driven everything before it.
The Majority Socialists left nothing untried to fan this resentment into an open flame. Not only did the government make use of ...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LABOR PARTY 65 Truly, the Socialist majority leaders bear upon their souls not a little of the responsibility for the dastardly murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
The Proletarian Revolution of Germany The immediate future of Germany lies shrouded in darkness. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 105 The American Government, in April 1918, through Ambassador Fletcher, threatened the Mexican Government with action should it continue to impose control upon foreign capital. This apparently was unsuccessful and armed intervention is being proposed in place of...

106 107 EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE Franz Mehring Ill fortune seems to dog the footsteps of the Spartacus movement in Germany. Still bleeding from the fearful wound that it received when Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg died a martyr death at the hands of the mob, it has received another blow...

150 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TRUTH ABOUT INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA 151 Russian peasants and workers that deserted the Allies, but the Allies, yes, and fear the working classes in the Allied countries, who deserted the Russian peasants and workers in the hour of their distress.
Now, what was the policy of ...

170 171 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPAN AND CHINA Japonlic (the eastern devil. Furthermore, it loosened the stranglehold that Germany held upon China. Hitherto the Chinese had felt that their army, drilled and commanded by German experts, was invincible. The ease with which the Japanese forces advanced ...

179 SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 178 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Theoretically the matter resolves itself into the question: is the dictatorship of the proletariat possible without violating democracy, as far as the class of exploiters is concerned?
Kautsky has expressly omitted this, theoretically the only i...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 109 brought Mehring out of the Berliner Volkszeitung into the ranks of the Socialist movement.
He became a regular contributor to the scientific Socialist organ, Neue Zeit, and in this capacity he has for many years done some of his most valuable work for the Ger...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 111 Party Discussion What is the Left Wing Movement and Its Purpose?
By EDWARD LINDGREN upon the people of Germany, that the last four years of war have taught them such a bitter lesson, that the Independent and the Majority Socialist Parties will, unquestionably, be return...

PARTY DISCUSSION 113 112 THE CLASS STRUGGLE with opportunism and its result: The leaders of the party vied with each other in finding excuses for their co patriots in Europe who were voting appropriations to their various governments for carrying on the war pleading with the party membership that...

114 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PARTY DISCUSSION 115 part of its general activities. We believe it is the mission of the Socialist movement to encourage and assist a proletariat to adopt newer and more effective forms of organization and to stir it into newer and more revolutionary modes of action.
That t...

124 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 125 The proletariat of all countries must stop the slaughter by rising.
They are called to dictate peace in the interests of freedom and socialism.
Now the hour has come to act. At this moment the English and French workmen may follow the signal given by the Germa...

126 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 127 high sounding words is gone! The hour of action has struck for the Internationall We ask you to elect Workers and Soldiers Councils everywhere that will seize political power, and, together with us, will restore peace. Not Lloyd George and Poincaré, not Sonnin...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLAS STRUGGLE Vol. III FEBRUARY, 1919 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 243 55th Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year CONTENTS Page Editors: EUGENE DEBS, LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. III FEB...

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...

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 ...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LENIN VERSUS WILSON 25 ism and its subterranean alliances. And, just as the socialists in all countries, with the exception of small minorities, concluded a Burgfrieden, and aided capital in the universal clash, so did they also in free America.
The American socialists imagin...

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...