230 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 231 German imperialism more palatable to his Socialist readers.
Mr. Berger assured them that the Kaiser Balkan policy had been approved in advance by Karl Marx himself, and that Scheidemann and Co. in supporting that policy were carrying out the last will an...

DOCUMENTS 245 244 THE CLASS STRUGGLE on the miners of this country. They fully expect, if the mines are owned and controlled by the state, that the workmen will have a considerable voice in the management in view of the fact that they have more than livelihood at stake. Their safety of life and l...

300 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FINLAND LABOR REPUBLIC 301 uprising of the people took place, beginning in a general strike.
The White Guard Government fled to the sparsely settled northern part of Finland, leaving the capital and all the agencies of government, and all the popular manufacturing districts...

128 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 129 trayed the class struggle and, in so doing, the decisions of the Second International, must be abandoned, the policies of the Social Imperialists and Social Patriots emphatically condemned, and the principles of the class struggle proclaimed. The future ...

134 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 135 Our national constitution expressly provides that the delegates to international congresses should be elected by referendum vote.
Since the motion for the calling of such a conference emanated from our own party, our executive was in a position to call f...

DOCUMENTS FOR FUTURE SOC, HISTORY 151 150 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ment of a character quite unknown in its previous history, aside from the military tyranny which will prevail while it lasts, all to the great detriment of the democratic institutions of this country and the moral and material interests...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 27 policy, encouraging France in the acquisition of colonies, while keeping Germany out of colonial adventures.
It is now commonly said that Germany has been preparing for the present war for forty four years, that is, since the conclusion of the Fra...

SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 29 28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE may, therefore, be taken for granted that we cannot have peace, at least not a lasting peace, until these demands are somehow satisfied.
real navy, that is, a navy which means sea power, must have points of support commensurate to its size, if its...

30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 31 of change by growth; and any arrangement which will leave change possible will not be secure either from Germany point of view or from that of her opponents. Germany surely will not consent to any peace that will not secure to her at least all tha...

56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 57 greatest economic change made by the Russian revolution. Other economic changes, the entire abolition of private property, the establishment of the co operative commonwealth will come with the next revolution. Labor and Democracy By LOUIS FRAINA The deeds of the governmen...

80 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF CAPITALISM 81 About five years ago the government increased the salaries of all civil officials and military officers by 25 per cent. and a new increase is again being contemplated. Last year the pensions paid out to the members of this class amounted ...

THE CLAS STRUGGE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. NOVEMBER DECEMBER, 1917 No. Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 115 Worth St. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editors: LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORE CONTENTS Vol. NOVEMBER DECEMBER,...

6 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PACIFISM IN THE SERVICE OF IMPERIALISM Pacifism in the Service of Imperialism By LEON TROTZKY Petrograd, June 30 (17. 1917.
There have never been so many pacifists as at this moment, when people are slaying each other on all the great highways of our planet. Each epoch has no...

23 THE PASSING OF THE NATION 22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE In order that we may be able to judge fairly of the tendencies of recent and contemporaneous thought, we must remind ourselves of the ideal political state of the nationalistic mode of thought, which is: Every Nation one State, and every State on...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 25 In this connection, it is well to remember that Dr. Naumann is neither a militarist nor an imperialist in the ordinary sense of the word. On the contrary, he is a democrat, and there are people who think he is almost a Socialist. It must also be ...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 65 Imperialism and the New Middle Class By RUTGERS by the levying of taxes, resulted in a greater amount of misery, exploitation and starvation than in the worst periods of direct colonial plunder. This was the era of free trade in which inte...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 67 process of production and especially of distribution under Capitalism. only mention two points: First, the enormous waste in foreign investments and foreign enterprises. great many of the railroads and other colonial experiments do not yie...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 69 Such is the character of Imperialism in peace and in war.
And this character dominates all social institutions and all human relations. It means aggression and brutality, it means an utter disregard of human life and human rights, save the...

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94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TASK OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 95 mocracy; it needs slaves, subjects. Militarism cannot stand democracy; it needs soulless machines, tools of destruction. It needs martial law; and the capitalistic classes of to day everywhere have thrown and are throwing sometimes s...

120 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Fraina Defense Fund Louis Proina, one of the Editors of The Class Struggle, and Bditor of The New International, has been found guilty of alleged con.
spiracy to violate the Draft Law, Fraias was arrested as a Conscientious Objector, tried as a Con.
scicatious Objeotor,...

A NECESSARY BOOK SOCIALISM AND WAR By LOUIS BOUDIN scholarly discussion of the causes of the Great War, and a splendid discussion of the economic basis of Imperialism.
It has everywhere been bailed as a fine contribution to Socialist thought, by such men as Eugene Debs, Austin Lewis and Joshua Wa...

THE CLAS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, 1918 No. Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 119 Lafayette St. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editor. LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORR VOL. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, ...

6 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER FROM LEON TROTZKY are mistaken. The opposition is growing. In spite of martial law, in spite of this mania of nationalism which, whatever its form, be it royalistic, radical, or socialistic, always preserves its capitalistic quintessence revolutionary opposition is mar...

16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 17 Peace and the International By Rosa LUXEMBURG.
In spite of military dictatorship and press censorship, in spite of the downfall of the Social democracy, in spite of fratricidal war, the class struggle arises from civil peace with elemental forc...

6 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Socialist Congress of Copenhagen (1910) and Basle (1912. which declares that. In the event war should come notwithstanding the efforts of the Socialists to prevent it, then it becomes the duty of the Socialists to work for its speedy termination, and to use...