66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 67 marks the entry of the international proletariat into a new revolutionary epoch. In this epoch the Social Revolution is no longer an aspiration, but a dynamic process of immediate revolutionary struggles.
This is an historic fact of the utmost i...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMISTICE ON ALL FRONTS 69 Armistice on All Fronts By LUDWIG LORE Negotiations in Brest Litovsk are still under way. But the last three weeks have been a deadlock and today it is practically certain that they will lead to no settlement between the two parties. As a matter of...

THE COMMON ENEMY 75 74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE And if the latter, then on which side was the working class to range itself? Which of the two upper classes was the workers worst enemy, so that it behooved them to make common cause with the other?
And if so, The problem of the common enemy is as old as ...

THE COMMON ENEMY 81 80 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The same basic ideas hatred toward unbridled and irresponsible individualism; faith in the God given or natural leaders of the people, the order loving and responsible nobility; and consequent repugnance to parliamentarism and purely polita ical activitie...

120 121 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS is that it took a second revolution in Russia to make President Wilson formally acknowledge the peace formula of the first.
And it is also a fact which should be borne in mind that when this recognition finally came, it was given not only grudgingly, but...

CHANGING LABOR CONDITIONS 135 134 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ise of the school officials, that the law would be passed, and the boys given school credit for the school work of the whole term. If the bill were not made law these boys would be placed in a most unfair position. This premature dismissal of b...

CHANGING LABOR CONDITIONS 137 136 THE CLASS STRUGGLE On this subject the powers of the legislatures depend utterly upon the interpretation by the court of the idea expressed in the words health and welfare. and upon the skill, with which the argument is presented to the court that the statute inv...

174 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 175 cohesive power of the autocratic forces was eliminated from the social structure of Russia. This very thing would likely happen in any other country in which the fetish of government authority would be destroyed in one way or another...

190 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRAGEDY 191 need no instruction. Unlike the Scheidemanns in Germany and out of Germany, Trotzky could never bring himself to believe that the German ruling class could ever be reformed. Trotzky went to Brest Litovsk in the hope that his extraordinary step, and inevitabl...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 41 THE CLASS STRUGGLE to make clear this much: that the policy chosen cannot be attacked as a violation of party morality, for it did not violate social thinking, but on the contrary was the result of it. The unity of action was destroyed by the minority. Of course the major...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE paid for this evasion will not absolve us from the task of undertaking their solution. They are pressing upon us. The old International is dead. And unless we are willing to give up all hope of creating a new International based upon the international solid...

8 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE that or any other nation are equally interested. And on the other hand, separate action by the Socialists of the country involved threatens the very foundations of Socialist internationalism the very life blood of the Socialist movement. Both, the true inte...

10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 11 thereby offending our prospective customers. regard being had to the fact that as matters then stood the Central Empires were as likely to be our customer as the members of the Entente.
As long as our trade was not interfered with we remained neutral. W...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 13 rels which will immediately be patched up the moment the toiling masses should show any sign of revolt the erstwhile enemies uniting their energies in an effort to crush the real common enemy.
The question as to which is the deeper and more fundamental ...

28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 29 The statistics are not significant because of what they express in foreign trade alone. Trade in itself is not a cause of belligerency between nations to day. The statistics of trade must be considered in relation to a nation stage of economic developme...

42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 43 is usual in such cases, the convention came upon us like some elemental force, in a haphazard and disorderly fashion, without any chance for a proper discussion by the membership of the work which it was to do, and, in many instances, without the member...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 45 44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The fact is that the formulation as well as the adoption of the so called majority report was the result of a series of political tricks and manoeuvers such as has seldom been seen before at a Socialist convention.
Leaving out minor differences of opini...

132 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 133 should we on that account neglect to give to the affairs and occurrences within the movement the necessary attention. Distrust is one of the greatest of democratic virtues; serious and honest criticism are indispensable conditions for the healthy growth ...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 137 136 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ceive of Spargo in another party. In this respect, Spargo loss will mean to the party much more than that of Mr and Mrs.
Stokes, Charles Edward Russell, Ghent and William English Walling put together. But there was another factor that seemed to justify u...

DOCUMENTS FOP FUTURE SOCIAL HISTORY 143 142 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Documents for Future Socialist History Majority Resolution on War and Militarism Adopted by Referendum Vote with overwhelming Majority against Minority Resolution The Socialist Party of the United States in the present grave crisis, s...

144 THE CLASS STR JGGLE DOCUMENTS FOR FUTURE SOC. HISTORY 145 Our entrance into the European war was instigated by the predatory capitalists in the United States who boast of the enormous profit of seven billion dollars from the manufacture and sale of munitions and war supplies and from the expo...

146 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS FOR FUTURE SOC. HISTORY 117 (a) The restriction of food exports so long as the present shortage continues, the fixing of maximum prices, and whatever measures may be necessary to prevent the food speculators from holding back the supplies now in their hands. b) Th...

148 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 149 DOCUMENTS FOR FUTURE SOC, HISTORY We demand that there shall be no conscription of men until the American people shall have been given the right to vote upon it. Under the British empire the people of Australia were permitted to decide by ballot whether they should be c...

152 THE CLASS STRUGGLE nities and without any forcible annexations of territory by any oi the belligerents, whether avowed or sought to be hidden by some less offensive term that may be invented for the purpose; so that no nation may be deprived of any part of its liberty or made in any way depen...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW LABOR MOVEMENT OF THE WEST There was a great hall capable of holding a thousand people comfortably. At one end of the hall was a rail and counter which separated the office from the hall, and in the office were seven desks, each of which represented a separate industrial ...