24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 25 very clear.
two and three hundred per cent. profit? Even an unselfish war for democracy must be made to pay in dollars and cents. Otherwise, what the good of it all?
Only a supreme novelist could adequately describe the emotions of this period; only a s...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 27 26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE January, 1917.
Year, 1916.
Year, 1915.
Aug. to Dec. 31, 1914.
MERCHANDISE Credit Trade Balance (Excess Exports Imports of Exports. 613, 441, 020 241, 674, 851 371, 766, 169 5, 481, 423, 589 2, 391, 654, 335 3, 089, 769, 254 3, 554, 670, 847 1, 778, 596,...

32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 33 But woe to the Socialist movement in this country, and throughout the world, if it collapses as the movement collapsed in Europe, if it allies itself with Imperialism, or if it adopts a policy of empty protest!
Majority Limitations and Minority Rights B...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 61 We should contemplate with amazement surgeons and nurses attempting to save lives, and at the same time working in co operation with murderous men, equipped with the newest appliances of science, bent upon destroying lives all zealously striving togethe...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 77 to a bodyguard and protector of the Emperor, which not only in the August days of 1914 fell into the lying trap of the government, but even now, when the true character of this imperialistic war for conquest stands openly revealed still remain the volun...

84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 85 they possess neither raw materials nor sufficient machinery, and millions of their best workers have been slain, whilst the greater part of the working male population have been estranged from their accustomed tasks, performing the rude labor of war. Th...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 111 THE FIRST APPEAL OF THE INDEPENDENT SOCIALDEMOCRACY OF GERMANY The German Social Democratic Party opposition, which united at a Conference held at Easter in the city of Gotha as the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, has published the fol...

112 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ON THE FIRING LINE AGAINST WAR AND IMPERIALISM Win recruits for our cause, by unceasing agitation. Found organizations that will proclaim and put into action our principles, wherever they do not yet exist, help diligently in building up those that are already organized. You...

ON THE FIRING LINE AGAINST WAR AND IMPERIALISM Here is a paper that is waging a war on two fronts a war against reactionary Capitalism, and a war against reactionary Socialisin.
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST RECONSTRUCTION. is published every two weeks by the Socialist ...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 65 develop chauvinistic Imperialism. cannot here repeat Boudin convincing argument at length. It may, however, be briefly epitomized thus: Hats, shoes and calicoes can be sold under any old flag. Steel rails, steel ships, steam engines and structural iron ...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 77 Socialism is a failure and in despair, La Monte accepts the hypocritical idealism of this war for democracy.
The article is not an argument as much as a soliloquy. La Monte was thinking aloud, and put his thoughts on paper. And the peculiarity of it all...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 83 There are to day, and always have been, two Socialisms. In spite of a multiplicity of apparent tendencies, fundamentally the Socialist movement has been divided into two groups the opporlunist and the revolutionary. The opportunist has been dominant, an...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PHILIPP SCHEIDEMANN 101 Philipp Scheidemann PEN PICTURE Philipp Scheidemann, erstwhile compositor, a good public school education to which he has added considerably, an open head, clever, mentally very active. born agitator, familiar with all the tricks of a demagogue. He k...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 123 122 THE CLASS STRUGGLE mobilization. But the masters are uneasy, nevertheless. In spite of the fact that conscription provides the government with power to suppress strikes, the capitalist class is trying to make assurance doubly sure by means of no strike legislation, plentif...

125 CURRENT AFFAIRS 124 THE CLASS STRUGGLE thousands and even millions of men, both within Russia and outside of it, the Revolution meant a change of allegiance as far as the war is concerned, a change of the side on which they ranged themselves in their sympathies, hopes and efforts.
Whether or ...

114 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PARTY DISCUSSION 115 part of its general activities. We believe it is the mission of the Socialist movement to encourage and assist a proletariat to adopt newer and more effective forms of organization and to stir it into newer and more revolutionary modes of action.
That t...

150 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TRUTH ABOUT INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA 151 Russian peasants and workers that deserted the Allies, but the Allies, yes, and fear the working classes in the Allied countries, who deserted the Russian peasants and workers in the hour of their distress.
Now, what was the policy of ...

152 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TRUTH ABOUT INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA 153 tary agents in Russia and the Czecho Slovak National Council. This Council had taken under its control the Czecho Slovak prisoners and deserters from the Austrian army and had formed them into a separate legion to fight against Austria...

BERNE POST MORTEM CONFERENCE 161 160 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Later when the question of prisoners of war was under discussion, and the German majority delegates were bitter in their denunciation of the Allied governments for refusing to liberate German prisoners of war, thus provoking the French deleg...

168 169 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPAN AND CHINA the Chinese have realized the value of their national resources, they will become a powerful influence among nations.
Most nearly related to the Chinese are the Japanese. Racially these two nationalities have so much in common that either can be easily a...

170 171 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPAN AND CHINA Japonlic (the eastern devil. Furthermore, it loosened the stranglehold that Germany held upon China. Hitherto the Chinese had felt that their army, drilled and commanded by German experts, was invincible. The ease with which the Japanese forces advanced ...

226 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 227 New York locals, which are dominated either by the right or by the center, a mass movement of the membership has produced the organization of a Left Wing Section, the Manifesto and Program of which have already been adopted by a number of locals of the party....

254 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 255 Berlin, October 31 st 1918.
To the workers and soldiers of the entente!
not being satisfied with the streams of bdoed that tre flowing everyo here in the west in the east, in the south the send you, British more kers, to fight against us, the Russian workingme...

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...

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...