408 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CHIEF TASK OF OUR DAY 409 order to provide repose and healing for his army, which has become sick with disintegration and demoralization.
We have signed a Peace of Tilsit. When Napoleon forced Prussia in 1807 to make such a peace, he destroyed all the German armies, occ...

432 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 433 An Open Letter To American Liberals By SANTERI NUORTEVA Representative of the Finnish Workers Republic.
prominent American liberals with whom Comrade Nuorteva, as official representative of the People Republic of Finland, has repeatedly had occasion to di...

168 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FORMING WAR PSYCHOSIS 169 they would dominate the world. Socialism to affect the feelings of solidarity, the instincts of class and self preservation against Parasitic encroachments appeals to the higher centres which in the face of stimuli directly affecting the lower stan...

174 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 175 cohesive power of the autocratic forces was eliminated from the social structure of Russia. This very thing would likely happen in any other country in which the fetish of government authority would be destroyed in one way or another...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 177 176 socialists never will be able to wipe off their face the brandmark of deliberate traitorship toward Russia. Even the independent socialists, although we fully realize the limits of their possibility of action, cannot be fully release...

178 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 179 hit the hide of the people themselves. It must be conclusively proven, that the victorious war was an illusion only. revolution needs a material impetus. It might be said that the sense of justice of human beings is easier awakened b...

182 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 183 Russia between the two contending imperialistic camps, and thus on their part do their share in subduing the power of the Russian labor movement.
Let me then say, here and now, that the German imperialists never will control Russia. ...

201 SELF DETERMINATION OF NATIONS 200 THE CLASS STRUGGLE nionarchy were not voted by the Social Democracy. For the use of the war credits did not in the least depend upon the Social Democracy. They, as a minority, stood against a compact threequarter majority of the capitalistic Reichstag. The So...

204 GERMANY, THE LIBERATOR 205 Germany, the Liberator By LUDWIG LOR How quickly the human mind forgets! For should we otherwise have believed the peace protestations of the German Government and the assurances of German government socialists. Should we otherwise have allowed them so completely to...

206 THE CLASS STRUGGLE GERMANY, THE LIBERATOR 207 But what were the Germans to liberate? How numerous is the German population in the Baltic Provinces? These provinces, Courland, Livonia and Esthonia, cover an area of 90, 000 square kilometres and, according to the census of 1897, have a populati...

208 THE CLASS STRUGGLE GERMANY, THE LIBERATOR 209 vient tools of the Russian aristocracy. The large landholders, moreover, are a powerful political factor. They hold a number of medieval political privileges and are the sole rulers in the provincial Diets. The Baltic nobility is on a level with i...

211 GERMANY, THE LIBERATOR 210 THE CLASS STRUGGLE contrary emanating from German press agents is based upon lies and falsifications. The entire Lettish people was as one in its opposition against a German war of liberation. The Committee on Foreign Relations of the Lettish Social Democracy, in 19...

212 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 213 and is demanded by the Socialists of every other national group of Russia, is and must be the aim of the Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian and Esthonian Socialists.
It is the fate of every great world empire, that it carries in its body the germs that will cause its own destr...

222 CURRENT AFFAIRS 223 Current Affairs The new Danger: Peace by Negotiation It is becoming increasingly evident from day to day that the reactionaries of the world are preparing to negotiate and conclude peace at the expense of Russia, and to strangle the Russian Revolution in the process of pea...

336 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 337 venture in partnership with others. Like the good realists that we were, we knew, of course, that we cannot cast up accounts once for all and then throw ourselves blindly into relentless action. We knew that in order that we may count in the game we must...

346 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 347 ber of the coalition, and the different Blüchers are, therefore, very naturally apt to differ as to what is the common business of the coalition, or its most important business at any given moment.
not on that account considered a fool. His failure was c...

352 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 353 Russian Baltic provinces. Internally, it has been proving itself in the increased activities of courts martial, and similar liberal institutions, and it has just now again proved itself in the defeat of the Prussian Equal Franchise Bill.
And let there be...

354 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 355 small group of radicals was so completely outvoted as to be practically annihilated.
One of the curious manifestations of the present mood in Germany, is the organization of a new political party the party of workingmen and salaried employees. The princi...

364 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 365 the civilian ministers had declared that no Austrian troops would take part in the last invasion of Russian soil, the military command set them in motion. few weeks after Count Czernin had vowed that he would not take a yard of Russian territory, the Magyars f...

186 THE TRAGEDY 187 Hardly four months have passed since those lines were written and our worst fears have already been fulfilled, making what may have then seemed to many unwarrantedly gloomy forebodings, a rather mild and reserved statement of an appalling situation. In these four months Russia...

188 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRAGEDY 189 Russian Revolution. But they ought to know that their hopes of national independence are intimately bound up with the Russian Revolution that the only way in which they can secure their independence is by their standing by Russia and not by their separating ...

190 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRAGEDY 191 need no instruction. Unlike the Scheidemanns in Germany and out of Germany, Trotzky could never bring himself to believe that the German ruling class could ever be reformed. Trotzky went to Brest Litovsk in the hope that his extraordinary step, and inevitabl...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 61 transition period, whose state can be nothing else than the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. The theory of Marx is the practice of the proletarian revolution in Russia. The dictatorship of the proletariat ruthlessly annihilates the...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 63 war against world Imperialism. This was not the war Kerensky waged, nor is it a war desired by the Allies. Peace is a means to an end: the Social Revolution in Europe. The international policy of revolutionary Russia is to arouse this proletaria...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 65 As the tactics of the proletarian revolution in Russia are synthesized into the general mass action of the proletariat, so its internal and international policy are synthesized into the aspiration and the struggle for the Social Revolution of th...