PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 37 36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE contagious. It is admitted that if Germany becomes definitely Bolshevik, all Europe will become Bolshevik. And then?
Inevitably, this will develop revolutionary currents in the United States, will develop other revolutions, will accelerate a...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 55 the abolition of social wrongs in the anarchistic sense, it is of the conviction that the proletariat must be prepared to use its whole power for the achievement of political equality. The political mass strike can be succesful only with...

434 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 435 Why did you go to Russia, and what do you expect to get out of it? You went there to help the Czecho Slovaks, of course!
That is what the diplomatic declarations said. To help the CzechoSlovaks to get out of Russia to fight on the western front. But aside...

436 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 437 and German reaction at that, is being encouraged and the democratic anti German masses discouraged, while in Russia the workers republic, which is anti German and democratic, is attacked, and any one is encouraged who is against the Soviets, whether he be...

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 ...

440 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 441 of the greatest revolution in the world, down to the deepest hell as betrayers and traitors to liberty and progress. But still more possible is another outcome. Either the Czecho Slovaks will successfully perform the work they are asked to do to day, and,...

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,...

482 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 483 Through the creation of Government and district soviets for the regulation of public affairs an organization for conducting the business of the people has been secured. These soviets are elected by the organizations of the workmen and employees ...

492 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 493 EDITORIALS The Prospects of Peace The test of an army is in defeat and retreat. Defeat, much more than victory, reveals an army morale and capacity. This is equally true of the international army of the Socialist proletariat, which wages war upon Capitalism a...

498 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 499 other policy on making the world safe for democracy and the self determination of nations. The president has completely reversed his previous policy on Russia. as he did on other occasions, on Mexico and on the war.
The statement announcing this new policy, i...

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...

566 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 567 have injured us severely, and we must do penance (and who knows how much longer) by blood and hunger, for the dream that we can run the whole earth.
tive work. That unfortunately, has been a great mistake in German political policy, that has cau...

576 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 577 New Germany By LUDWIG LORE.
Suddenly as the war began it has ended. And the military rulers of Germany, whose insane lust for power thrust a world that was tottering on the brink of war for years into its horrible maelstrom, have fled from the wrath of their...

578 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 579 Russian land and Russian resources. The Russian people had won the very soul of the German nation.
To day the political fortunes of the German nation lie completely in the hands of the Social Democratic movement. The capitalist system of production in German...

580 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 581 country. On the 9th the Emperor fled from German soil and Prince Maximilian was proclaimed Regent. On Monday, the 11th, Scheidemann and Ebert demanded his resignation in the name of the German people, and Ebert was proclaimed Chancellor of the German Sociali...

582 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 583 one, then numerous Socialists to their city councils. In the national, state and municipal legislative assemblages they forced the adoption of social legislation, and the German protective factory legislation, German old age pension laws, unemployment laws a...

584 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 585 whole world was headed in the wrong direction, not only in the question of militarisin and war, but in its whole fundamental conception of the class struggle. They proclaimed the death of the second International, and, together with radical Socialists of oth...

586 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 587 deposits and of their readiness to meet all obligations incurred by the monarchy in the shape of war loans. They believe that the time is ripe for a social revolution in Germany, but desire that it be introduced gradually, without skipping what they believe ...

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...

618 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 619 an opinion on the subject, and that he would bow gracefully to any decision that the Bourbon gentlemen from the South and the pliant Republican tools of the big interests in the East and West might reach.
So in a single speech, Wilson shattered the house of c...

620 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 621 skillful newspaper and publicity propaganda, together with overtime wages of a considerable portion of the workers had created a determination to see it through in place of the former opposition.
Nothing is known as yet about the results in the West.
This in ...

626 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 62 tation of having candidated for almost every office in the gift of his party without ever having been elected, whose reputation as a cheap wit after dinner speaker makes him a popular guest at such intellectual feasts, charged the red flag in a venomous speech...

636 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 637 An Appeal of the Soviet Government We Pravda of August 1st issues the following appeal to the proletariat of the Entente countries, written by Lenin, Chicherin, and Trotzky: The entire capitalist press of your countries is howling with a hoarse voice, like a d...

DOCUMENTS 639 638 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 3, 1918. Art. IV of the Brest Litovsk Treaty granted to the populations of the provinces of Kars, Erzchem, and Batum, which had been a part of the Russian Republic, the right to establish a new regime based on an understanding with neighboring powers, particul...

640 THE CLASS STRUGGLE One Year of Revolution Silently Russia bares her wounds to the German people. Now, while the German people is passing through hours of serious trial, joy is absent also from the hearts of Russians. The Russian workers desire no victory for American or London capital; they h...