550 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 551 emigrants, rebels against legal authorities and therefore a camp for war prisoners was the most natural place for us to live in.
On April 5th we made an attempt to wire to the Russian government. Our telegrams were passed. During the entire period o...

548 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 549 lice. But this did not prevent the investigating officers McCann and Westwood from gathering information about us among other passengers, for instance, from Mr. Fundaminsky, these officers insisting at the same time that was a terrible socialist. Th...

546 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 547 To the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dear Sir: jority of the German social democracy. Having been published in Zurich at the beginning of the War, this pamphlet was smuggled by Swiss Socialists into Germany and there it was spread by the same social...

545 IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 544 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the circumstances of this arrest and the conditions of our confinement, see the letter addressed to the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, printed herein below. This letter wrote on a Danish steamer after my release from British captivity, intend...

542 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 543 In British Captivity By LEON TROTZKY. consider it at this time a matter of political necessity to publish the documents bearing upon my imprisonment by the British for the period of one month. The bourgeois pressthe same press which has been spreadi...

540 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 541 individualist system of capitalist production and the social and political subordination of the toiling masses. In national affairs the party broad aim is to secure for the producers by hand or brain the full fruits of their industry, and the most equit...

538 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 539 tice to keep the millions of soldiers supplied with food and deathdealing implements, and to furnish the other millions of noncombatants behind the lines with the necessities that the insatiable monster of modern war keeps calling for and must have.
The...

536 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 537 Germany may be cited as the highest development of State Control with, of course, reservations, the nearest approach to State Socialism, including many of the evils that would go with an efficiently organized society of that form.
There is in Germany th...

534 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 535 Bridging the Gap of State Socialism By WILLIAM FIELDING There has been discussion without end on the question of State Socialism or State Capitalism, which is a more accurate term for what the modus operandi implies and its relation to the achievement o...

532 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 533 magic, complete in every detail, as Minerva sprang from Jupiter head.
While the old bourgeoisie democratic constitutions, for instance, proclaimed formal equality and the right of free assemblage, the constitution of the Soviet Republic...

530 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 531 because they seem so simple and unpretentious, because they take place in the everyday life of the factory districts or in se cluded villages, because they are the deeds of people who are not in the habit of proclaiming their every succ...

528 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 529 that he knows only one war that is sanctified and justified from the standpoint of the proletariat: the war against the capitalist class, the war for the liberation of mankind from wage slavery. am not surprised that this fearless man w...

526 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 527 Nevski Prospect. He is no revolutionist who would have the revolution of the proletariat only under the condition that it proceed smoothly and in an orderly manner, that guarantees against defeat be given beforehand, that the revolution...

524 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 525 England and Germany have not hesitated to ruin a whole of row of nations, from Belgium and Servia to Palestine and Mesopotamia. Shall we then hesitate to act in the name of the liberation of the workers of the world from the yoke of cap...

522 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 523 tive forces of organized human labor, by utilizing machines and all the wonders of technique America has taken the first place among free and civilized nations. But at the same time America, like a few other nations, has become characte...

THE CLAJ STRUGGLE Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 431 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editor. LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. II DECEMBER, 1918 No.
45 A Letter to American Workingmen By LENIN.
Moscow, Augu...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. II DECEMBER, 1918 No. CONTENTS Page Letter to American Workingmen.
By Lenin.
521 533 Bridging the Gap of State Socialism.
By William Fielding 534 541 In British Captivity. By Leon Trotzky. 542 555 Finnish Document. By Höglund. 556 559 The Awakening of Austria. By Victor Ad...

THE CLAY STANGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. II DECEMBER, 1918 No. A Letter to American Workingmen By LENIN In British Captivity By LEON TROTZKY The Awakening of Austria By VICTOR ADLER New Germany By LUDWIG LORE In the Torrent of the Revolution By MAXIM GORKI Price, 25 Cents SOCIALI...

8 The International Movement Russia and the New Revolution cries: Enough of war! Bread and peacel is simple beautiful! No wonder th THE advent of the revolutionary proletariat in Incidents of this sort, together with the mass revolted.
Germany and Austria has immeasurably action of the industrial...

7 made rapid Wallings. believe that almost alone in Russia, behalf of the Bolsheviks, and cried, With this lic, they declared that they withdrew for one rensignificance and possibilities of the Soviets. It vika have nothing to do! And the Bolsheviks Constituent, and that they, the Bolsheviks, wou...

THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE November 30, 1918 The Constituent Assembly in Russia and a have moderutc Socialist Minister of the of land By John Reed AT five minutes past four o clock on the mornthreat over the heads of the Ministers. of Revolu The Russian musscs had three imperative Tchernov of the firs...

November 30, 1918 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Chapters from My Diary By Leon Trotzky II In Switserland The German Treason. Plckha yama, yet at the same time, he was openly hos. Prussian militarism, and then was unable to NU:Greulich.
tile to the confidence, then so dear to the revolu muster manhood eno...

THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE November 30, 1918 Revolutionary Socialism in Germany maxscs By Karl Liebknecht WHAT was the meaning of March 24, 1916. The of conflicts and decisions is damined by the events eighteen delegates who finally decided on Deon March 1th. In the turmoil of a world war all cember 2...

November 30, 1918 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE ution, the Soviets after the accomplishment of their initial task, do not dispcrsc, but acquire new Bolsheviki and Mensheviki Bolshevikjabs strength and develop new action, usurping government functions, developing from instruments in Bulgaria KERENSKY has ...

2 The Revolutionary Age SE: the of Socialism Arrested. threatened capital. This the uccess of boursemaintained assist these troops. In Vladivostok the Allies dis The Independent Socialists do not oppose the persed the Soviet, and a new election was held: Assembly, but they oppose its immediate co...