OUR OLD MASTERS 85 84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Our Old Masters and Their Modern Substitutes By FRANZ MEHRING, masses an understanding of those terms that will make them active agents for good in the liberalization of the world. am a simple man and always fall for a plausible argument. was enchanted wit...

226 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 227 New York locals, which are dominated either by the right or by the center, a mass movement of the membership has produced the organization of a Left Wing Section, the Manifesto and Program of which have already been adopted by a number of locals of the party....

356 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TWO YEARS OF SOVIET RUSSIA 357 The Tsarist government had assumed obligations particularly to the Allied nations that it seemed impossible to meet. Under such conditions, an open break with the Allies was unthinkable, and, at the same time conditions in the country and at t...

16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 17 tion had been rather peculiarly constituted. We had, on the one side, a primitive system of fragmentary, disorganized, small scale production, on the other, gigantic undertakings which frequently employed 15, 000 to 20, 000 laborers and employees. After...

THE COMMON ENEMY 87 86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Abbott Samson and William Conqueror times, the arrangement they had made of their Governing Classes. Highly interesting to observe how the sincere insight on their part, into what did, of prime necessity, behoove to be accomplished, had led them to the wa...

90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE COMMON ENEMY 91 seas of the class struggle they drifted on finally to find refuge in the opposite camps of pro Allyism and pro Germanism. The latter assumed different forms in different countries: in this country it finally assumed the form of pacifism thus bringing an a...

92 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE COMMON ENEMY 93 vast socialization of railways as well as of forests, and many national sources of production, all are a menace to greedy competitive individualism. The capitalist class in England has been groaning over the measures forced upon the ruling class to insure...

212 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 213 and is demanded by the Socialists of every other national group of Russia, is and must be the aim of the Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian and Esthonian Socialists.
It is the fate of every great world empire, that it carries in its body the germs that will cause its own destr...

214 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE IN RUSSIA 215 masses would show their readiness to die with ecstacy under this red rag, for Constantinople and the Straits.
But the imperialistic cloven hoof of Milyukov was sticking out too plainly. In order to win over the awakened masses and guide their revolut...

THE CLAJ STRUGGE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. II MAY JUNE, 1918 No. Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 119 Lafayette St N. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editors: LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORE VOL. II MĄY JUNE, 1918 No. The D...

350 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 351 finally brought about the long delayed appointment of General Foch to the post of Generalissimo of the Allied Armies in France.
question of the future relations of the Allies to Russia. The treatment which that question has received at the hands of allie...

366 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 367 ments, its policy was a call for the dropping of all war aims which might prolong the war. Official Austria has adopted a more conservative philosophy, the Catholic pacifism of the Papal Note. It is lukewarm and uncertain about the democratic theory of self de...

426 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 427 tions and action, which during the war has repeatedly repudiated the compromises of the official representatives, depends the future character of the British Labor movement. In any event, unless the bulk of the workers remain dormant, which is unt...

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 43 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE tarian. The British Labor Party policy is a petty bourgeois policy, a counter revolutionary policy, as has been clearly apparent from its unity with imperialistic Capitalism in the British Cabinet, its declaration that the war was a war of d...

618 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 619 an opinion on the subject, and that he would bow gracefully to any decision that the Bourbon gentlemen from the South and the pliant Republican tools of the big interests in the East and West might reach.
So in a single speech, Wilson shattered the house of c...

96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 97 can conceive of a United States Senate, any considerable portion of which would refuse to sanction a treaty of peace, once it has been adopted by the peace plenipotentiaries of the great powers.
In France, there have been no national elections since before the ...

106 107 EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE Franz Mehring Ill fortune seems to dog the footsteps of the Spartacus movement in Germany. Still bleeding from the fearful wound that it received when Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg died a martyr death at the hands of the mob, it has received another blow...

114 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PARTY DISCUSSION 115 part of its general activities. We believe it is the mission of the Socialist movement to encourage and assist a proletariat to adopt newer and more effective forms of organization and to stir it into newer and more revolutionary modes of action.
That t...

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...

156 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LAND QUESTION 157 istic as to renounce their own private property in land. forcible nationalization of their lands might even deprive the Revolution of their support.
Nor would it be correct, on the part of the Social Revolutionaries, to consider the transfer of private...

148 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LAND QUESTION 149 enabled to lead the wasteful, brilliant, empty life of a landed aristocracy.
of the peasants to wipe out the great system of landholding agriculture, were the motive forces of the Russian agrarian movement. The latter aimed at increasing the holdings o...

218 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE IN RUSSIA 219 clusions of a profoundly revolutionary character. The only thing their structure lacks is the driving force of a revolutionary policy. The government, for the most part capitalistic, could not possibly give birth to a system that was diametrically op...

266 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 267 sources.
gress of events in the British labor movement possess any significance, it is that we have emerged from the period of petty social and political reforms into an era of revolutionary social upheavals.
The revolutionary upheaval of society by the abolit...

460 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 461 measures.
in any sense final, although latent in the general tendency of the While the representation on the local and district organs of control is industrial, the whole system functions territorially and is not yet wholly and integrally indust...

RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 485 484 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The separation of church and state was carried out all over Russia without any upheaval; the peasants have adopted civil marriage without much ado.
14. The class struggle was carried into the villages, the question of furnishing the inhabitants ...