190 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LOGIC OF INSANITY 191 showed stiff resistance and somewhat reduced the bill that France was condemned to pay.
Have we a Bismarck? It seems doubtful. But there is no doubt that the military caste everywhere reasons in the same way, is madly charging down the same incline...

AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP 192 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 193 Court Councillor. There is no trace of this ultimate human weakness in the friendship of Marx and Engels: the more their thoughts and labors became interwoven, the more each one of them remained a full man, complete in himself.
rather on the relati...

200 201 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION of his life, to have stood by Marx side for forty years, even at the price of being completely overshadowed by Marx gigantic form. Nor did he consider it to be a belated form of satisfaction, to be permitted, after the death of his friend, to be...

204 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION 205 It is hardly necessary to repeat the charges it contains against our Russian comrades. We are all familiar with them.
Hartmann, according to the terms of the indictment, is a strange individual with a mysterious past. He is described as a French...

MANIFESTO AND PROGRAM 213 212 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the workers during a revolution. Moderate Socialism had a rigid formula. constructive social reform legislation within the capitalist state and to that formula it clung. It believed that bourgeois democracy could be used as a means of constructing ...

214 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MANIFESTO AND PROGRAM 215 geois reforms, so that the workers may be kept fit to produce the greatest profits at the greatest speed.
DANGERS TO AMERICAN SOCIALISM There is danger that the Socialist Party of America might make use of these purely bourgeois reforms to attract ...

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...

222 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 223 Hungary. We call upon the Tchecho Slovak peasants and workers to shake off the yoke of their oppressors. Although we are determined to defend our republic.
against all attacks, we hereby declare our firm desire to make peace as soon as it is possible to do so...

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...

228 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 229 compromise; to compromise is to betray revolutionary Socialism. On with the war against moderate Socialism in our party! Turn to the left.
Eugene Debs, a Revolutionist The revolutionary Socialist who would promote its policy must align himself with the left w...

EDITORIALS 231 230 THE CLASS STRUGGLE With these splendid words Debs has set us a standard that we must uphold and carry out. To accept less, to ask for less, were an insult to the man whose courage and whose cheerful readiness to endure the fullest measure of sacrifice with his comrades has stru...

EDITORIALS 233 232 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Mass Strikes. he was employed as the American representative of the great Demidow Steels Works of Russia. He combines therefore a knowledge of business affairs with an impeccable record as a So cialist and revolutionist, a combination that will make him an id...

234 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 235 The Butte strike was equally important and dynamic; it was directed by an actual Soldiers and Workmen Council; it showed the to be a real industrial force; and again it was the conservative craft unions that broke the strike. In these two strikes there was ma...

314 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY 315 system. They defend with all their might the individualistic form of consumption which was a necessity only then when individualism existed also in the production, which was justified at a time when our present form of machinery was not yet dreamed of...

316 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY 317 self to be far stronger than the bourgeoisie. An actual bourgeois government existed in Russia at the time that Lvoff, Milyukoff and Gutchkoff were in power, but alas, they were in power only for a very short time. They existed only for a short time b...

318 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 319 Documents the Soviets through the spectacles of a Russian citizen, a pure and simple Slav. Lenin, on the other hand, looked through the telescope of an International revolutionist.
When an automobile is to be started, the first thing necessary to be done is to turn the ...

326 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 327 press their opinion freely in speech and writing, for that power of capital which enabled it to degrade the press to an agency for disseminating the capitalistic ideologies and obscuring the self consciousness of the proletarians, the dependency of the press u...

342 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 343 the same thing the realization of Socialism. This appeared also in the peace question. The peace question afforded a new, a classic example, illi :trating the divergent fundamental character of the three parties, and at the same time another touchstone to tes...

352 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Do You Want to know the Truth about Russia. Then read the New Weckly Newspaper devoted to telling You this Truth. Soviet Russia is the Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, of New York City organization of a revolutionary army and the forming of a Red Guar...

404 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 405 isting between the bourgeois and the citizen, between the member of bourgeois society and his political lion skin.
This contradiction of secular life to which the Jewish question eventually reduces itself, the relation of the political sta...

THE TWILIGHT OF LEADERSHIP 407 406 THE CLASS STRUGGLE in the form of religion does not yet profess it in the form of the state, for it still takes a religious attitude toward religion, that is, it is not the real fulfillment of the human basis of religion, because it still hinges upon immorality,...

408 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 409 The Military Program of the Prole tarian Revolution By LENIN Bourgeois history, its art and its literature tell us at every turn that the development of the social system is the work of great minds. Small wonder, then, that they seek to place the responsibility for the ...

410 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE MILITARY PROGRAM 411 perialistic powers would result in the participation of a second imperialistic power in competition with the first, and that thús every national war is changed into an imperialistic war. But this argument also is not true. It may be true, but it is ...

WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 367 366 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Work, Discipline, and Order to Save the Socialist Soviet Republic An Address by Leon Trotzky at the City Conference of the Russian Communist Party in Moscow, March 28th, 1918.
Comrades: The conference has met in a moment of profound internal ...

368 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 369 possessed certain formal advantages over the solder peasant mass in their ability to express their thoughts more or less articulately, their knowledge of reading and writing, and the like.
For this reason the cadres of the compromise parties ...