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...

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...

220 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 221 crowd. shot from a neighboring house called forth an answering volley from the crowd. Hand grenades were thrown and several persons were more or less seriously wounded.
As a result of these and similar uprisings 56 Communist leaders, among them Bela Kun, Bela...

218 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 219 were republic, was a liberal democrat of the finest type, honest in his intentions. But just as the Kerensky government in Russia was doomed to failure, and just as surely as the Scheidemann Ebert regime in Berlin will finally succumb to the insistence of the...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

211 MANIFESTO AND PROGRAM 210 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sions to democracy on the one hand, and its commercial rivalries, armament rings and standing armies on the other, all based on the exploitation of the working class and the division of the loot, was cast into the furnace of war. Two things only c...

208 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 209 Thanks to the International Bureau for the services it has rendered in the transmission of my correspondence to the Pravda and svestia. As a measure of prudence, will transmit to you all information concerning France and typewritten reports by numbered copies. GUILBEAUX...

206 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION 207 cial circumstances. The paper will probably appear twice a week, beginning with next month, and it will do good work. We have done all that is necessary to insure its distribution amongst the workers in the urban and industrial centers. To this ...

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...

202 203 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION and the very evident rebellious mood of the class conscious workers, launching an alarming warning to the powers that be to take cognizance of the fact that France is resting on a volcano far more dangerous than even Italy or England.
Some time ...

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...

198 199 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP those nations with whom there was some likelihood of immediate conflict. Oriental troubles led him to the oriental languages; he steered clear of Arabic with its four thousand roots, but Persian is a veritable child play of a language. he would be ...

196 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP 197 It is clear from the above that Engels was better fitted for a journalistic career than Marx; a real walking encyclopedia. s0 Marx once described him to a mutual friend, capable of work at any hour of the day or night, drunk or sober, swift with hi...

194 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 195 AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP cruiting and leading an army that was to revolutionize the world.
If it is true that the style is the man, we must also note their differences as writers. Each in his way was a master of language, a linguistic genius, with a mastery of many foreign...

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...

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...

188 189 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LOGIC OF INSANITY annexations of territory and peoples, they demand mines and natural resources for capitalist exploitation. They have no thought of the future. Like primitive savages they live only for the present. After us the Deluge. deluge of blood and tears.
An...

186 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 187 The worker must be provided with the explanation of the rise and function of the League of Nations, together with an explanation of the forces affecting its disintegration. Emphasis must be laid upon the next step in the evolution of internation...

184 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 185 The ready to beat upon the head any one who shall attempt to rise to question its designs, protest its acts, or challenge its authority.
The principal one of consequence that will so question, protest and challenge, is the rising worker. It is h...

182 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 183 made by the working classes of all countries, as well as the similarity of palliative measures offered by the capitalist classes as a means of pacification.
More striking proof is presented in the attitude of hostility taken by the ruling classe...

180 181 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE units is not by any means to promulgate a new doctrine. Marx and others of his day. pointed it out so often and so clearly in expounding the theory of the class struggle, that all subsequent pointing has been more or less reiteration, although i...

179 SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 178 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Theoretically the matter resolves itself into the question: is the dictatorship of the proletariat possible without violating democracy, as far as the class of exploiters is concerned?
Kautsky has expressly omitted this, theoretically the only i...

176 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EXPLOITER AND EXPLOITED 177 the sweetest fruits of existence, but who now are doomed by the mob to destruction and poverty or to common work.
Behind the exploiters stand also the great mass of the petitbourgeoisie, who as years of historical experience in every country have...