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...

98 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 99 There are others; there will be more. And it is our task, it is the task of the socialists and the workers to get into the fight against reaction, and to defend their own. No faltering! On with the struggle against Capitalism!
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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...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 103 to disregard those safeguards which the law and trade union rules have established for the protection of their lives, health and efficiency.
The super patriotic effusions of some of our labor leaders in offering to sacrifice their safeguard on the alt...

105 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the Vorwaerts at a time when the Russian proletariat has not only swept away the Czarish regime, but dares to carry on the fight for a Socialist republic, over the heads of the capitalist revolutionary government.
This statement, in favor of monarchis...

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 ...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 109 aims of the bourgeois liberals, the same as that which demoralized the proletarian movement in England and France. And so incompatible is this with the task of bringing about an actual and genuine democracy in Russia, that Jules Guesde demanded quite ...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 111 THE FIRST APPEAL OF THE INDEPENDENT SOCIALDEMOCRACY OF GERMANY The German Social Democratic Party opposition, which united at a Conference held at Easter in the city of Gotha as the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, has published the fol...

112 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ON THE FIRING LINE AGAINST WAR AND IMPERIALISM Win recruits for our cause, by unceasing agitation. Found organizations that will proclaim and put into action our principles, wherever they do not yet exist, help diligently in building up those that are already organized. You...

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TIE CLAY STANGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. JULY AUGUST, 1917 No. Socialists and War DEBATE ROBERT RIVES LA MONTE LOUIS FRAINA accuse. Friedrich Adler Speech in Court Socialist Policy in Peace and War By BOUDIN War Legislature By Asemblyman JOS. WHITEHORN PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIALIST ...

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

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...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE the Socialists will suffer most under this system need not be emphasized. But this is merely by the way. Much more dangerous is the step wise militarization of the United States, of which the present conscription act is but the beginning.
When our maste...

7 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE police court to ninety days in the workhouse. In his pleading Assistant District Attorney Hatting stated that the intent of the defendant in distributing this circular seemed to be to incite revolution. He insisted that, while the circular ostensibly co...

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...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 13 capable of producing a psychological effect antagonistic to that desired by the government. Even in its extreme use this does not necessarily imply that all criticisms of the government are forbidden, as we can see in the notable case of Maximilian ...

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...

16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 17 Such ideas cannot be formulated by the dominant classes, for they are not in accordance with their interests. The new catchwords must of necessity be democratic. Among them the word solidarity, whose significance was only beginning to be ...

19 SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE during the first days of mobilization. But on the whole such instances must have been rather exceptional among the German Socialists. On the whole, the German Socialists could not have been much different in their make up and ideas after ...

20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 21 SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR derstanding that relation that we can get anywhere in any re orientation within the Socialist movement.
Von Clausewitz, the great authority on war, has said that war is merely a continuation of politics by the use of different means ns mu...

22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 23 common cause for the defence of the common interest. They need not necessarily settle their quarrels in fact, it would be impossible to do so, in the nature of things but they must patch up a truce, forget their differences for the time b...