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...

324 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 325 Allied Propaganda (Distributed among British and American Soldiers in North Russia)
PROCLAMATION.
There seems to be among the troops a very indistinct idea of what we are fighting for here in North Rassím. This can be explained in a few words. We are up agains...

322 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 323 powers which at the present period is ameliorating itself every day, On the Northern front the Soviet troops have just re conquered Shenkursk, on the Eastern front having temporarily lost Perm they have re captured Ufa, Starlitamak, Belebey, Orenburg, and Ural...

320 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 321 were huge demonstrations of soldiers shoutino: You want to send us to Russia, but we won go!
In order to allay the storm of popular indignation the Allied governments sent out a statement in which they expressed their deep concern and sympathy for the sad plig...

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 ...

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...

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...

312 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY 313 fanatic and ordered the latter arrest. The colonies that Robert Owen founded did not last very long. The members soon began to quarrel among themselves. The colonies, which Robert Owen thought served as a stepping stone to the Socialist State, were so...

310 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY 311 followers of the Revolutionary Theory, while the Scheidemanns, Eberts, Kerenskys and Breshkovskayas are the followers of the Evolutionary Theory. For the latter, parliamentarism and the Constituent Assembly was and still is the one and only one way th...

308 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY 309 others will prefer Democracy. Here we have the cause for the great quarrels between the different factions of the proletarian movement both among the leaders as well as the rank and file.
The present government of Soviets in Russia and the Spartacan m...

306 307 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY lectively by some of the publications of their National Executive Committee, and particularly the rather pompous letter to Senator Overman in which this sentence occurs: Let us make it plain, Sir, that we absolutely discard the strike, general or loca...

304 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE 305 ACT IX.
The Former. Rococo.
Mogol. Rococo, you re an ass. disavow you.
Lama. We disavow you.
Mogol. But a wise monarch will not permit anyone to leave his presence discontented. Behold, Rococo!
Lama. The Order of Seraphims!
Mogol. As a token of my personal appreciat...

302 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AUTUMN SLUSH 303 given us in the person of this Rococo! The foundations of society are crumbling!
Mogol. Whaddyemean?
Finances. He gone and talked the Discontented into the idea that they must reform themselves. And they ve taken him at his word and want to become sober!
Mo...

300 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AUTUMN SLUSH 301 with deeds, all the fronts directed against Russia will collapse like houses of cards, and the opposition and sabotage of the middle class will break down of itself.
The Russian Revolution is and will remain the point of departure of the World Revolution, w...

298 THE CLASS STRUGGLE GREETINGS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA 299 portation, of organization, than lack of actual foodstuffs, that is the cause of the present deficiency. And industry also, with its present raw materials, could attain a much higher productivity if it should work more intensively and with b...

296 THE CLASS STRUGGLE GREETINGS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA 297 And yet, revolutionary Russia, economically exhausted, cuc off from all supplies, and without the slightest assistance of any kind from the outside, even from the socialistic Germany of Scheidemann and Haase, which has categorically refused ...

294 THE CLASS STRUGGLE GREETINGS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA 295 in three months, in order to make clear to the proletariat the object of its activities, may it present to the proletariat of the world, whose blood is still being shed in streams by the capitalists; a picture of something that is worth figh...

292 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 293 powder, the international proletariat will itself proudly wear in the near future. He who is frightened at this face or turns away from it, as from a Medusa head, will turn away from the proletarian revolution, and away from Socialism. But t...

290 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 291 up to the present time the Russian proletariat has not been able to organize production on a Socialistic basis, they are only mocking themselves without knowing it. Everywhere the bourgeoisie and the bourgeois intelligentsia place the greate...

288 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 289 fies simultaneously the intellectual control of the masses of the people, even in the most highly developed capitalist countries.
Under the pressure of misery and want, under the convulsing of the masses by such means as the war, all the opp...

286 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 287 no methods through Socialist organization, that it is, therefore, a Socialist revolution, which can only be put down by the Attilas of Imperialism, neither the Mensheviki nor their European parrots can deny, just as little as they can discla...

284 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 285 can not a day in order to liquidate these burdens and raise the expenses of re armament for the next war. They would not put an end to the confusion of the economic life of the country but only shift the consequences of this confusion upon t...

282 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 283 consistent in their falsification of Communism, the revisionists, declared that Socialism could not come in Europe until capital had subjugated the entire world: on that fact they based as is well known the necessity of having the working cl...

280 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 281 accratic forms of the capitalistic state and must create new organs of power of the working people in the fires of the proletarian revolution, he was accused by Karl Kautsky, the most authoritative Marxian theoretician, of being an anarchist...

278 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 279 way.
Democracy. The mass strike as general strike was exalted by the French syndicalists as a means of winning complete liberty. The working class, which, up to this time, had battled only politically in parliaments, began to reflect on thei...