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 ...

32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 33 country; and nearly any part of the United States has more regular contact with New York or Chicago than with any other part of North America. Isolation is more a matter of time than of space, and common interests are due to the ease of transport...

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...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 109 selves by declaring war without adequate or reasonable cause.
We should do the country the honor of correcting that fatal mistake as soon as possible. Alliance with foreign nations should not be tolerated. Our hands should be kept entirely free to negoti...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 111 110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE she is necessarily worse than those who have entered the struggle before her. Only that we have not seen the others when they were plotting, manoeuvring, calculating. When we first beheld them they were in the midst of the combat, a prey to the fiercest ...

112 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 113 paign, as long as the Allied peoples are taught by Mr. Simonds and their other patriotic advisers that national selfishness is the highest virtue?
Germany is able to follow the Napoleonic strategy because Germany has in fact no allies. Her allies have be...

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...

PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 21 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sustaining of the Hapsburg Monarchy and its aggrandizement by a number of new territories; finally the establishment of a fictitious integrity of Turkey, under a German protectorate e.
the conversion of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, in one form o...

23 PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE war as such, whatever its military outcome may be, is the greatest conceivable defeat of the cause of the European proletariat.
The overthrow of war, and the speedy forcing of peace, by the international revolutionary action of the proletariat,...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL 25 at one and the same time. Only as the material conditions for the destruction of capitalism and the abolition of class society can the works of the capitalist triumphal march through the world bear the stamp of progress in a historical sense. I...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 27 PEACE AND THE INTERNATIONAL were not the greatest of all horrors, as if the praise of human slaughter in a socialist periodical were not mental Cossackdom in its very essence.
But the horrors of imperialist bestiality in Europe have had another effect, that has brought to...

THE COMMON ENEMY 89 88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE order in it, where man rules over commodities instead of commodities over man. But here was Disraeli Beaconsfield the great leader of the Conservative Party, who was not satisfied with merely plodding along trying to conserve the present, but who had grea...

107 106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE state lies in absolutist hands, and maintained that the Duma is incapable of carrying out the principles of the Revolution.
Legislative activity was denounced, and the propagandistic and organizatory function of the Duma was underscored.
The general character of Duma ac...

114 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 115 agreement beforehand the militarists will inevitably get the better of the bargain when the conferees come to agree around the green table.
Kuehlmann and Trotzky should disagree on such fundamental questions as those involved in the settlement of the wor...

116 THE CLASSS STRUGGLE 117 CURRENT AFFAIRS principle. At best they were willing to accept it as a basis of negotiations that is, as a means of concluding as advantageous a bargain as they could under the given circumstances. Naturally they were looking to the condition of the market which in thi...

126 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 127 St. Louis and After In our last issue we called attention to the change of heart and the change of front with respect to the war on the part of Mr. Hillquit and that part of the Socialist Party which follows his leadership. This change has since been acc...

161 160 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Forming a War Psychosis also use the nobles forests and pastures, and mow the nobles meadows. But together with this enormous expansion of the peasant farm area for cultivation, there will loom up before the Russian revolutionary democracy the question of increasing thę...

162 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FORMING WAR PSYCHOSIS 163 But the crown and head of creation has an intellect. It can function socially. Essentially reason cannot harbor contradictions. In a mathematical or geometric problem reason is at its best. In these domains its non contradictory nature is manifest....

164 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FORMING WAR PSYCHOSIS 165 its novel psychosis. Prof. Small in the September Journal of Sociology arrives at the same conclusion that the methods and aims of America in the World War are not selfish. Did not Wilson himself urge the people to fight without malice?
Yet if the ...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE CHANGING LABOR CONDITIONS 130 131 Six months after hostilities opened however, unemployment diminished, and the Allies contracts and the social results thereof began to grow clearly visible. To fill the void in the labor market created by the cessation of immigration and by the...

168 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FORMING WAR PSYCHOSIS 169 they would dominate the world. Socialism to affect the feelings of solidarity, the instincts of class and self preservation against Parasitic encroachments appeals to the higher centres which in the face of stimuli directly affecting the lower stan...

178 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 179 hit the hide of the people themselves. It must be conclusively proven, that the victorious war was an illusion only. revolution needs a material impetus. It might be said that the sense of justice of human beings is easier awakened b...

198 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SELF DETERMINATION OF NATIONS 199 determine the socialist position of the world war as a historic Occurrence. its causes, was purely imperialistic, cannot fail to see after a dispassionate view of its effects that war, under the present conditions, automatically and inevita...

201 SELF DETERMINATION OF NATIONS 200 THE CLASS STRUGGLE nionarchy were not voted by the Social Democracy. For the use of the war credits did not in the least depend upon the Social Democracy. They, as a minority, stood against a compact threequarter majority of the capitalistic Reichstag. The So...

208 THE CLASS STRUGGLE GERMANY, THE LIBERATOR 209 vient tools of the Russian aristocracy. The large landholders, moreover, are a powerful political factor. They hold a number of medieval political privileges and are the sole rulers in the provincial Diets. The Baltic nobility is on a level with i...