78 79 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR very justly attacks. And in an article in The New Review, July, 1914, in discussing a certain school of Socialists, said: They neglected individual psychology, assuming that for all practical purposes it was sufficient to know that the social milieu con...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 85 84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE and upward development of the race, but to day the nation is a reactionary factor. National wars of liberation and democracy are a thing of the past. Once the carrier of democracy, the nation to day is the carrier of Imperialism. National interests simp...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 89 ten thousand years ago are considered determinant to dayin a world revolutioniezd by steam and electricity, and knit together by the wireless and international trade in all the seven corners of the earth!
The characteristics of the race, the fundamental...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 91 90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE tempted by the bourgeoisie on the eve of the Revolution. Moreover, a distinguishing feature of Imperialism is the acquisition of territory for purposes of exploitation, and we find the nations of the world to day developing more and more in the directio...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 83 and had to pay annual tribute to the capitalists of the older European nations, it has in a short space of time developed into a country that is able to exact tribute from the Old World and its dependencies. That fact ought to arrest our attention, for ...

86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 87 peoples their place and stake out places in the sun, spheres of influence and other claims, became the political and spiritual leaders of the peoples, and transplanted to their native country the manners and ideas they had acquired in dealing with socal...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 89 Current Affairs CONSCRIPTION In the name of our war for democracy, freedom, and the national honor of America we have plucked the first fruit from the tree of American militarism: selective conscription. And so, whatever the outcome of this war for cult...

96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 97 And Representative McCulloch (Republican, Ohio) thus expressed our war aims in the House. believe that we should enter this war merely for the purpose of protecting our rights, and when we succeed in forcing Germany, if we should so succeed, in recogniz...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 101 as well as of the wisdom of those who attempted to harmonize it by straddling the issues and create a fictitious majority where there was none. In our opinion this was a grave error, as our movement must be frank and sincere above all. If there was no...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 107 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 1914, to uphold the Hohenzollern dynastic autocracy and to undermine the Russian revolutionary movement. On the contrary: he was then fighting Czarism in practice, and in theory he adhered to the innocent looking formula of being a German first and a ...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR LEGISLATURE 11 ing to PEACE times. Who these domestic enemies are we need not guess very long.
The Governor was also authorized to take a census of the military resources of the State. What the Governor has done in exercising that authority, the people of this State have...

A WAR LEGISLATURE 43 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Mr. Whitman, who will most probably seek to be again elected Governor, in order to obtain the Republican nomination for President in 1920, was too scared to sign this bill. His political ambitions saved the day for the workers of the State, temporarily.
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POLITICAL MAJORITIES 57 56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE That is the situation in America to day, the same as in other nations, because irrespective of past differences, the present essentials are identical in all advanced countries. And we, like they, are developing physical force as a means of making our ...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 59 For the organization of big capital is inherent in industry and is consequently automatic. The middle class and the working class are automatically disorganized by industry, and must reach a stage of organization comparable to that of big capital by a m...

61 SOCIALISTS AND WAR THE CLASS STRUGGLE 60 should be abhorrent to any one under thirty. The youthful reactionary appears to me abnormal and loathsome.
But while we need not be ashamed of our romanticism, we must none the less admit that it is a most deceptive refracting medium through which to o...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE for old, worn out or unattractive war slogans would do credit to an experienced shell game promoter.
Look at Germany, for instance. When the war fanfare sounded in August, 1914, the German people were called upon the war path to defend German Kultur aga...

9 THE CLASS STRUGGLE War and Public Opinion By AUSTIN LEWIS masses.
person (a) to limit the facilities for transporting, producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing or dealing in any necessaries. b) to restrict the supply of any necessary. d) to prevent, limit or lessen the manufacture or produc...

10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 11 vasion was sufficient, as the most obvious instinct of self preservation was thereby called into play, but there were also other self regarding sentiments which aided the war appeal. As Liebknecht charged in the May Day speech for which he is now su...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 15 public by the instruments of publicity, all of which are in the hands of the government group. These have heretofore been the press, the pulpit and the speeches of statesmen and politicians. To them the British government at least has added during t...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 101 Current Affairs Is the increase in socialist sentiment and understanding in sound proportion to the actual vote cast for our candidates?
This, and this alone, is the criterion by which the true worth of this campaign may be judged.
The New York Mayoralty...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGŻE 103 CURRENT AFFAIRS way they could. For the first time in the history of the Socialist movement of New York our meetings were crowded with audiences made up of such newcomers. To speak to these people in the phraseology of scientific Socialism would have been more than futi...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 107 tionary influence in the United States today than that of the average German voter.
The battle has been fought and won. new and a bigger fight is on, the fight, not for humanity and the people, as it was rather unfortunately expressed in our city campaig...

114 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 115 was both a student as well as a teacher at that remarkable institution of learning.
The Neue Zeit was founded in the fall of 1882, when the Bismarck anti Socialist laws were in full operation and the German Socialist movement at its lowest ebb. But its y...

116 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 117 our feet by the vociferations of Messrs. Scheidemann Co.
and their following in Germany and elsewhere.
It is therefore refreshing to see Kautsky standing by the true Socialist principles, and braving the terrors of the German Government, as well as of Sc...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 19 exhaustion. But even a victorious Germany, under such circumstances, even if its imperialistic war agitators should succeed in carrying on the mass murder to the absolute destruction of their opponents, even if their most daring dreams should b...