430 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 431 country itself did not bring up the land question, the Scheidemann servants of the bourgeoisie and the Junkers had no cause for grasping this hot iron. Some of the medieval rubbish, such as the rules for servants, was abolished on paper the estate districts we...

428 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 429 and mine are asserting their right and power to rule, and be masters of their own destiny.
Your masters see that the spirit of revolt is spreading to your countries. In both England and America the idea of Bolshevism is making rapid headway. Great Labor demons...

426 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 427 WHY DON YOU RETURN HOME?
To the American and British Soldiers conmen and peasant deputies) is the only real democratic Government in the world?
Of course you don know all this. Because your masters are afraid to tell you the truth about revolutionary Russia. T...

424 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 425 Documents Bolshevist Propaganda WHY DON THEY SEND YOU HOME?
impetuous insistence and his creative criticism contributed their full share in causing the Junius pamphlet to be created so soon and so masterfully, just as it is due to his iron will that it could be printed ...

422 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 423 where it would begin its triumphal course.
The Russian Revolution was to be the subject of a second Junius pamphlet, some of whose outlines had already been hastily sketched by Rosa Luxemburg. The murderous hand of the German culture bearing military has ...

420 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 421 right bankruptcy, as the inner expression of a social patriotic labor party imbued with bourgeois ideals, a party that has sold the proud revolutionary birthright of the proletariat for even less than the mess of pottage demanded by Kautsky for the empty ...

ROSA LUXEMBURG 418 419 THE CLASS STRUGGLE months later the Junius pamphlet was finished. Rosa Luxemburg did not allow her imprisonment to be a breathing spell for the enemy. They would not let her fight. With stubborn courage she replied to the power attacking her, Very well, now ll fight all the...

416 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 417 But to be sure, by this time the Social Democratic Party had already turned its misguided steps toward parliamentarism, it was fast becoming a bourgeois party, and its fear of mass action was already leading to its surrender to militarism and imperialism....

414 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 415 wars, not by means of kind wishes, but by overthrowing and disarming the bourgeoisie.
Whoever in view of this last war is not willing to carry out this demand, let him be good enough to refrain from uttering large words about the international revolutiona...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE MILITARY PROGRAM 412 413 dom, or, as today, upon wage slavery, the oppressing class is always armed. Not only the standing army of today, but also the militia of today, not excluding that of Switzerland, is armament of the bourgeoisie directed against the proletariat. Surel...

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 ...

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 ...

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,...

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...

402 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 403 dom of men. Just as Christ is the mediator upon whom men impose the whole burden of their religious prepossession, so the state is the mediator that is made to bear all their irreligion, all their human freedom from bias, The political exa...

400 401 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION man.
its peculiarity. The criticism of this relation ceases to be theological criticism as soon as the state ceases to take a theological attitude toward religion, as soon as it assumes the attitude of the state, that is, a political attit...

CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 399 398 THE CLASS STRUGGLE lege, and because this restraint in life reacts upon the law, compelling it to sanction the discrimination between the oppressed and an oppressing class of citizens, who, as such are presumably all free. 65. When, then, would the Jewish qu...

396 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 397 The Christian state can be related to the Jew only in the manner of the Christian state, that is, in the manner of privilege, permitting the segregation of the Jew from the remaining subjects, but at the same time making him feel the press...

394 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 395 Concerning the Jewish Question Two Reviews by KARL MARX The Jewish Question. By Bruno Bauer, Braunschweig, 1843. The Capability of present day Jews and Christians to become free. Twenty one leaflets from Switzerland. Edited by George Herwegh. Zurich and Winterthur, 1843...

392 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONVENTION IMPRESSIONS 393 Convention, our convention is absolutely bound by the joint call. Up to the assembling of the Conference, no one had thought of forming a new party. And yet the Michigan Federation crowd made a continuous persistent effort to stampede the conventi...

390 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 391 CONVENTION IMPRESSIONS Socialists to watch for and extirpate all efforts at counter revolution.
This use of and co operation with the police is a notable instance of socialist participation in the class struggle. But under which flag? The dozens of handsome, expensive f...

388 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONVENTION IMPRESSIONS 389 In the four years of imperialistic mass murder blood has flown in rivers. Now every drop of that precious fluid must be preserved, with veneration, in crystal vessels. Unfettered revolutionary energy and big hearted humanity these alone are the br...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE OH! HOW GERMAN IS THIS REVOLUTION 386 387 consideration by those who mean to overcome the revolution in Russia and Germany by armies.
When a hundred million peasants in Russia are convinced that the Russian territory belong to them, then no army is strong enough to take this co...

384 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE INVINCIBLE POWER 385 are acquainted with the causes that drove them to a revolt.
The lust for freedom and the conviction that the gifts of nature and the results of labor belong to the people and not to a few self crowned individuals pierced very deeply the hearts and s...

382 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE INVINCIBLE POWER 383 Government, that is, such an apparatus in which the head executives are persons directly elected by the Soviets of Workers Peasants and Soldiers Deputies, there can be no contradiction between the executive power and the masses of the workers, just ...