564 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 565 blood; awful and immeasurable is the guilt that taints those who wrote the Serbian note, which was hailed as a salvation.
At last! a real word well spoken, it was said. And not only by Christian Conservative groups, but by nearly all the liberal...

588 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 589 hold upon the people of Russia to the fact that it stands ready, at all times, to carry out their demands. In Germany it is possible that the same conditions may bring about exactly the opposite effect. The soldiers and the working class, according to all in...

590 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 591 war may have disturbed but has not broken, is a formidable enemy, an enemy that will fight without mercy and without quarter, once it feels that it has again gained a foothold in the country.
feels itself at the mercy of the proletariat, just as the class co...

606 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 607 Economic and Menshevik Determinism By MAURICE BLUMLEIN known socialists were kept in confinement in their own homes during the progress of the riots by their supporters, as it was well known that the government was prepared to arrest them on the slightest pretext.
In Os...

608 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 609 inevitable and economically determined and pre determined. We shall have to arrive at a clear understanding of exactly what is fore ordained by the Class Struggle, by historic inevitability and economic determinism.
CLASS RELATIONS R...

614 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 615 be a very deceptive sort of liberty. Both chattel slavery and Feudalism recognized the principle that the world owes a man a living; not that it was ever formulated in so many words, but it was inherent in the nature of the instituti...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 45 The way to wage war upon a Labor Party, should it eventuate, is not to promise more reforms than the Labor Party, is not to plead and placate, but to develop the revolutionary consciousness of the proletariat, to awaken to action the great, ...

46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 47 ization for the revolutionary conquest of the party by the party! The American Socialist Party needs a definite, organized, vocal left wing, a unified expression of revolutionary Socialism in theory and practice. Thus alone shall we prepare ...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLAS STRUGGLE Vol. III FEBRUARY, 1919 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 243 55th Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year CONTENTS Page Editors: EUGENE DEBS, LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. III FEB...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE President Wilson injunction to be neutral in thought. The action of the German Socialists in supporting the Kaiser government in this war was either openly approved by our official leadership, or else we were admonished not to disapprove of it on the plea o...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 15 Our strategic power is great. Our course of action will influence profoundly the action of the whole international movement.
May we meet this task in a spirit worthy of the revolutionary character of Socialism!
Herein lies our task: to bring the needed ...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 31 30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE brutal State Socialism; and the fusion of bourgeois progressivism with Imperialism in the interests of general reaction.
All these factors have been developing rapidly and powerfully before the war, in this country and Europe; and the consequences of th...

34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 35 of the community. All paths of thought and all efforts travel henceforth not from the individual to the mass but the other way around from the mass to the individual. The reversal of attitude is complete. On the basis of the solidarity of the community,...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 37 instrument, merely intended to preserve existing conditions as a sphere of activity. Class solidarity on the other hand is an instrument of offense which is supposed to contain the germs of a future society. It is not for us to investigate here which of...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 39 38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the front the common interests of the entire proletariat independently of all nationality. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the Bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 63 capitalistic seekers for markets and economic aggrandizement.
The Red Cross executive, doctor, nurse, and helper prefer the approval and applause of this so called upper class. To give themselves to the cause of the lowly and of the exploited poor with ...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 65 To be sure, such arguments will not be nearly as effective as stern necessity itself, in forcing the bourgoisie and the government to take heed. But they will maintain their old principle, that in a peaceful, capitalist state of society everyone must ta...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 67 The most important of the large industrial branches could be brought, easily, into national ownership. This could be done, without difficulty with the direct war industry.
The question of employment for the returning soldiers, too, would be solved for t...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 69 that added taxation would reduce the standard of living of the working class even more than before. But they forget that the standard of living is not fixed, that it is determined by that which the worker is in a position to demand, and to win from the ...

74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 75 possessed more influence over the decisions of Bethmann Hollweg during the war, than the once so mighty Junker court camarilla.
The Court Jews have pushed aside the old Court Nobility.
measure the inner political life of Germany seem imminent. So, for i...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 78 79 THE CLASS STRUGGLE times of peace the tactics of its national groups on questions of militarism, on colonial policy, trade questions, May demonstrations, and the tactics of its national entities in times of war. The next duty of the socialist movement is the mental libera...

81 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 80 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ways will, be the most trusted supporter of the monarchy, because it knows, that it needs its help. Like every other capitalistically highly developed bourgeoisie, it will rather sell its soul to the devil than become socialistic, would open the gates o...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 109 aims of the bourgeois liberals, the same as that which demoralized the proletarian movement in England and France. And so incompatible is this with the task of bringing about an actual and genuine democracy in Russia, that Jules Guesde demanded quite ...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 13 capable of producing a psychological effect antagonistic to that desired by the government. Even in its extreme use this does not necessarily imply that all criticisms of the government are forbidden, as we can see in the notable case of Maximilian ...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 71 ward has been in vain. And think it a glorious privilege to be living to day to do one part, however humble, in saving the world from the domination of the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns.
There is even less political democracy in Austria Hungary than in Ge...