108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 109 But in the course of developments this war has evolved a change of functions in the conception of Fatherland.
In former times there were no fatherlands, but simply nations which had to be governed. Since the 70 the ideal of a Lational state has come to life in th...

112 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 113 The Austrian minority, which was very small in this country where free speech was impossible, while it was very large in Germany, this minority will not be represented in Stockholm. But it will be spoken of in Stockholm your sentence will accomplish that. And the...

117 CURRENT AFFAIRS 116 THE CLASS STRUGGLE on a concert of power, America will not leave her isolation. world organized on the creed of victory is a world in which America must arm to the teeth and pursue a purely national policy.
But a few short months have elapsed since. But, by the grace of He...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 131 130 THE CLASS STRUGGLE of war.
a spirit of pessimism that manifested itself in a policy of narrow, middle class opportunism. The small incidental work of reform became, under his leadership, the centre of gravity of the whole Socialist movement; compromises were made the B of ...

138 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 139 But even the support of the Gompers machine would not alter the certainty that the firm Spargo, Russell Co. will take its place in the long list of American reform parties that are constantly springing up out of our fertile American soil, giving place, a...

140 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 141 they are praised and blamed by these papers. If refusing to join the second provisional Government, if the latter declared the war an Imperialistic war, Tscheidse was in harmony with the proletarian policy. But the fact that Tscheidse participated in the...

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...

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...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 53 52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE prisoned political agitators, suppressed free speech and free press.
Whether we agree with the action of the council or not, the circumstances that led to these acts must be understood. The council acted as it did to save the revolution.
The revolut...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 55 war problem will therefore be solved (if it can be solved at all without the co operation of the revolutionary proletariat of the other warring nations) on the basis of the no annexations, no indemnities formula. True, the bourgeoisie is imperialist...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 41 40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Russian Revolution and its Problems By MORRIS KOLCHIN The failure of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and of the revolutionary movement was brought about by a combination of forces. The bourgeoisie, hoping to obtain a home market and the freedom t...

42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 43 and the conflict remained unsettled, the needs unsatisfied. To be sure, great changes were made, important reforms introduced.
The dissolution of the peasant communities, the division of community lands and the sale of a great number of nobility est...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 45 True, this opposition of the bourgeoisie was rather of a harmless nature, for it was also in opposition to any non parliameniary steps, but it isolated the autocracy completely. It gave aid and comfort to the working class who remained as revolution...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 47 46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE All these days the Duma Committee was irresolute, for the members of the committee realized that the council was the real power, that the council and not the committee had the masses behind it. True, the committee did appoint commissions to look aft...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 49 coalition cabinet as their victory, and in some socialist quarters of the United States it was considered a victory for socialism.
It was of course neither of the two, it was a hard blow to socialism, to the socialist movement of the world. True, on...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 51 ess of differentiation of social groups and economic interests.
Thus ended the spring days of the revolution. Not only the bourgeoisie and large land owners but also the well to do peasants and later a part of the Cossacks, who were well provided wi...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DISCUSSION 109 Discussion Boudin Policy in Peace and War More deliberately than in his Socialism and War, Boudin accentuates his stand on war in a recent article, Socialist Policy in Peace and War, in the second issue of the Class Struggle. It is worth while to analyze his ...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DISCUSSION 111 machinations of discipline, censorship, and the entire power of militarism, and then evidently a small group of clever leaders sits watching all the time to see whether the ruling class does not go too far, and if it does, calls the workers back from the tren...

248 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 249. w Quit Fighting, British Soldiers And Join Your Russian Comrades!
Englisk prisoner from Archangel front writes to his brother Scots Is it right for working peopls of one country to kill working people of another. The Allied troops, invading Russia, have so of...

276 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 277 decision found expression first in opportunistic parliamentary practice, in the policy of the parliamentarian labor leaders, who hoped by flirting with the bourgeoisie, by limiting their demands, by giving up revolutionary propaganda, to be ...

286 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 287 no methods through Socialist organization, that it is, therefore, a Socialist revolution, which can only be put down by the Attilas of Imperialism, neither the Mensheviki nor their European parrots can deny, just as little as they can discla...

288 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 289 fies simultaneously the intellectual control of the masses of the people, even in the most highly developed capitalist countries.
Under the pressure of misery and want, under the convulsing of the masses by such means as the war, all the opp...

300 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AUTUMN SLUSH 301 with deeds, all the fronts directed against Russia will collapse like houses of cards, and the opposition and sabotage of the middle class will break down of itself.
The Russian Revolution is and will remain the point of departure of the World Revolution, w...

332 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 333 They want to reinstate the landlords whom the country people have driven out and to thrust the poor peasants, the small landholder, the squatter, the agricultural workers back into the condition of serfdom.
They want to put the confiscated money and jewels bac...