434 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 435 Why did you go to Russia, and what do you expect to get out of it? You went there to help the Czecho Slovaks, of course!
That is what the diplomatic declarations said. To help the CzechoSlovaks to get out of Russia to fight on the western front. But aside...

432 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 433 An Open Letter To American Liberals By SANTERI NUORTEVA Representative of the Finnish Workers Republic.
prominent American liberals with whom Comrade Nuorteva, as official representative of the People Republic of Finland, has repeatedly had occasion to di...

430 431 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM perialism means Capitalism on the verge of collapse, Capitalism being strangled by its own contradictions, History abounds with illustrations of a system apparently supreme at the moment when internal conditions and contradictions were about to de...

LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 429 428 THE CLASS STRUGGLE has been one of adapting itself to the new conditions, of working on the basis of the modification of class antagonisms, of subtly, but none the less actually, becoming part and parcel of imperialistic State Capitalism.
The epoch of Imperialism is...

426 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 427 tions and action, which during the war has repeatedly repudiated the compromises of the official representatives, depends the future character of the British Labor movement. In any event, unless the bulk of the workers remain dormant, which is unt...

424 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 425 Imperialism, and Imperialism is necessary to the existence of Capitalism; the state is repressive and undemocratic because that is essential to Capitalism, as are all the other evils of Capitalism.
The democratization of the state depends upon the...

422 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 423 of the sovereign right of the people; the suppression of secret diplomacy, to be replaced by the conduct of foreign policy under the control of popular Legislatures, and the publication of all treaties, which must never be in contravention of the ...

420 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 421 IV.
putes are vital to the existence of Capitalism. The nation is vital to Capitalism, and this acts against a supernational authority that could actually function.
The fundamental error of the Pacifist Socialist, of the Socialist who imagines tha...

418 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 419 torial problems might be put into effect, temporarily; but its demand for no economic war after the war is utterly incompatible with the requirements of Imperialism. Economic war, waged to the point where it flares up into the military struggle, i...

416 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 417 same as that over Morocco the vast resources of mineral wealth, particularly iron: Alsace Lorraine produces about 80 per cent. of the iron ore in the whole German Empire. Iron is the basis of the modern industrial technology, and its monopolistic ...

414 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 415 nationalistic purposes. subtle, insidious, counter revolutionary propaganda emanated from these organizations, even during the early stages of the Revolution, when they didn have the alibi of the pro German Bolsheviki: and so apparent and infamous...

412 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 413 the final, if finest, formulation of the moderate, petit bourgeois policy that has dominated the Labor and Socialist movement; the proletarian revolution in Russia is the initial, magnificent expression in action of revolutionary Socialism, of the...

410 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 411 Laborism and Socialism An Analysis of the Inter Allied Socialist and Labor Program on Peace, and the British Labor Party Program on Recon:irúction after the War.
By LOUIS FRAINA our Socialist activity, activity that is dynamic and prepares the Rev...

408 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CHIEF TASK OF OUR DAY 409 order to provide repose and healing for his army, which has become sick with disintegration and demoralization.
We have signed a Peace of Tilsit. When Napoleon forced Prussia in 1807 to make such a peace, he destroyed all the German armies, occ...

406 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CHIEF TASK OF OUR DAY 407 has communicated to our national productive forces to create a really rich and powerful Russia.
Russia may become such if we cast aside all discouragement and all oratory, if we strain every nerve and tighten every muscle, if we understand that...

404 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 405 The Chief Task of Our Day By LENIN Poor thou art, rich thou art, Strong thou art and weak thou art, Oh Mother Russia. of one over the other. Awakened India will not be dominated by the English, awakened China will not be satisfied with her present status, because no rac...

402 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 403 fall of the Yamamoto ministry, and a scandal at the Waka Matsu Steel works resulted in the suicide of the chief engineer, who was at the same time a high military officer.
The masses are beginning to see the light. In the Far Eastern Review of...

400 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 401 sura.
1868 was a unique sort of mass movement peculiar to Japan.
When the tenants have complaints and their demands are not heard by peaceful means such as petitions, they organize a forced appeal under mob rule. They hoist a rice straw mattre...

398 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 399 siderable portion of the Japanese people. The recent ChineseJapanese pact must be looked upon as a result of the popular demand represented by Mr. Shintaro Nagai and his following.
While Mr. Nagai refutes the idea of an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine...

396 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 397 is an ideal opponent of Bernard Shaw who wants the domination of the world by the white race. As to Japan foreign relations Tokutomi says: Japan has nothing to demand from the world except that she be given equal treatment by European and Amer...

394 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 395 when the Japanese in the Manchurian war showed themselves so formidable in conflict with one of the great powers of the world, the West not only began to fear that its old military, superiority over the East might be lost and that the white ma...

392 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 393 other great western powers. And this crude method of the militarists is made feasible by the fact that the force of public opinion has been eliminated, and that the workers have been kept from organizing, so that they are reduced to a conditio...

390 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 391 taken from them, and they were thrown on the street to earn their own living. All restrictions on trade and industry were done away with.
But as soon as this new capitalist state developed a fairly strong central government, and had gained the...

388 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMED. PEACE ON THE PACIFIC 389 Armed Peace on the Pacific By ΚΑ: CAMA Peace reigns over the Pacific. For Japan and the United States are allies, now that they have a common enemy: Germany, autocratic, militaristic Germany.
But there is a difference between Japan and the Un...

386 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOVIET RUSSIA SPEAKS TO BRITAIN 387 against the will of the people? he finds no reply. The continuance of a Government in time of revolution for eight months, without a standing army except voluntary detachments, inconsiderable in proportion to Russia area, without. police,...