614 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 615 be a very deceptive sort of liberty. Both chattel slavery and Feudalism recognized the principle that the world owes a man a living; not that it was ever formulated in so many words, but it was inherent in the nature of the instituti...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 45 The way to wage war upon a Labor Party, should it eventuate, is not to promise more reforms than the Labor Party, is not to plead and placate, but to develop the revolutionary consciousness of the proletariat, to awaken to action the great, ...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE President Wilson injunction to be neutral in thought. The action of the German Socialists in supporting the Kaiser government in this war was either openly approved by our official leadership, or else we were admonished not to disapprove of it on the plea o...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 15 Our strategic power is great. Our course of action will influence profoundly the action of the whole international movement.
May we meet this task in a spirit worthy of the revolutionary character of Socialism!
Herein lies our task: to bring the needed ...

34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 35 of the community. All paths of thought and all efforts travel henceforth not from the individual to the mass but the other way around from the mass to the individual. The reversal of attitude is complete. On the basis of the solidarity of the community,...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 39 38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the front the common interests of the entire proletariat independently of all nationality. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the Bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 63 capitalistic seekers for markets and economic aggrandizement.
The Red Cross executive, doctor, nurse, and helper prefer the approval and applause of this so called upper class. To give themselves to the cause of the lowly and of the exploited poor with ...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 109 aims of the bourgeois liberals, the same as that which demoralized the proletarian movement in England and France. And so incompatible is this with the task of bringing about an actual and genuine democracy in Russia, that Jules Guesde demanded quite ...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 13 capable of producing a psychological effect antagonistic to that desired by the government. Even in its extreme use this does not necessarily imply that all criticisms of the government are forbidden, as we can see in the notable case of Maximilian ...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 71 ward has been in vain. And think it a glorious privilege to be living to day to do one part, however humble, in saving the world from the domination of the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns.
There is even less political democracy in Austria Hungary than in Ge...

78 79 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR very justly attacks. And in an article in The New Review, July, 1914, in discussing a certain school of Socialists, said: They neglected individual psychology, assuming that for all practical purposes it was sufficient to know that the social milieu con...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 83 and had to pay annual tribute to the capitalists of the older European nations, it has in a short space of time developed into a country that is able to exact tribute from the Old World and its dependencies. That fact ought to arrest our attention, for ...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 101 as well as of the wisdom of those who attempted to harmonize it by straddling the issues and create a fictitious majority where there was none. In our opinion this was a grave error, as our movement must be frank and sincere above all. If there was no...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR LEGISLATURE 11 ing to PEACE times. Who these domestic enemies are we need not guess very long.
The Governor was also authorized to take a census of the military resources of the State. What the Governor has done in exercising that authority, the people of this State have...

A WAR LEGISLATURE 43 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Mr. Whitman, who will most probably seek to be again elected Governor, in order to obtain the Republican nomination for President in 1920, was too scared to sign this bill. His political ambitions saved the day for the workers of the State, temporarily.
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POLITICAL MAJORITIES 57 56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE That is the situation in America to day, the same as in other nations, because irrespective of past differences, the present essentials are identical in all advanced countries. And we, like they, are developing physical force as a means of making our ...

61 SOCIALISTS AND WAR THE CLASS STRUGGLE 60 should be abhorrent to any one under thirty. The youthful reactionary appears to me abnormal and loathsome.
But while we need not be ashamed of our romanticism, we must none the less admit that it is a most deceptive refracting medium through which to o...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE for old, worn out or unattractive war slogans would do credit to an experienced shell game promoter.
Look at Germany, for instance. When the war fanfare sounded in August, 1914, the German people were called upon the war path to defend German Kultur aga...

9 THE CLASS STRUGGLE War and Public Opinion By AUSTIN LEWIS masses.
person (a) to limit the facilities for transporting, producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing or dealing in any necessaries. b) to restrict the supply of any necessary. d) to prevent, limit or lessen the manufacture or produc...

10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 11 vasion was sufficient, as the most obvious instinct of self preservation was thereby called into play, but there were also other self regarding sentiments which aided the war appeal. As Liebknecht charged in the May Day speech for which he is now su...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 15 public by the instruments of publicity, all of which are in the hands of the government group. These have heretofore been the press, the pulpit and the speeches of statesmen and politicians. To them the British government at least has added during t...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 101 Current Affairs Is the increase in socialist sentiment and understanding in sound proportion to the actual vote cast for our candidates?
This, and this alone, is the criterion by which the true worth of this campaign may be judged.
The New York Mayoralty...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 107 tionary influence in the United States today than that of the average German voter.
The battle has been fought and won. new and a bigger fight is on, the fight, not for humanity and the people, as it was rather unfortunately expressed in our city campaig...

116 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 117 our feet by the vociferations of Messrs. Scheidemann Co.
and their following in Germany and elsewhere.
It is therefore refreshing to see Kautsky standing by the true Socialist principles, and braving the terrors of the German Government, as well as of Sc...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 67 marks the entry of the international proletariat into a new revolutionary epoch. In this epoch the Social Revolution is no longer an aspiration, but a dynamic process of immediate revolutionary struggles.
This is an historic fact of the utmost i...