610 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 611 slavery. In other words, changes during this period of history were made by negative action, by getting rid of an oppressive condition. Where this was accomplished by a new class relation, the new system served the desired purpose, b...

6 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION conversely, the existence of the state is a proof of the fact that the class contradictions are irreconcilable.
selves. Of course, it is true that long extracts make a presentation somewhat heavy, and will in no way contribute to its popularity. But i...

310 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIA AND GERMANY 311 followers of the Revolutionary Theory, while the Scheidemanns, Eberts, Kerenskys and Breshkovskayas are the followers of the Evolutionary Theory. For the latter, parliamentarism and the Constituent Assembly was and still is the one and only one way th...

EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE 434 435 extensive rapid transit system and other means of transportation; also, in the interests of production itself, by supplying the country adequately with electric power, gas, etc. and finally through the systematic unification of the agricultural with the indus...

32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 33 But woe to the Socialist movement in this country, and throughout the world, if it collapses as the movement collapsed in Europe, if it allies itself with Imperialism, or if it adopts a policy of empty protest!
Majority Limitations and Minority Rights B...

298 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FINLAND LABOR REPUBLIC 299 The Rape of Finland Labor Republic By SANTERI NUORTEVA Representative in the United States of the Provisional Government of the People Republic of Finland few years ago Jack London book, The Iron Heel.
created quite a sensation. At a time when the...

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...

630 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 631 court the verdict was given, and the death sentence spoken. Letters, sworn testimony and witnesses whose veracity is above all suspicion, have not only shaken the testimony of the witnesses upon whose testimony rested the entire proof of the prosecution, but ...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 71 services at the disposal of the bourgeois, in order to overthrow feudal society, genius has acquired an immense power, which has always disappeared, however, as soon as genius has undertaken to act on its own authority: the rock of St. Helena has then been its a...

238 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 239 without sparing ourselves or anything or anyone else. For this we are working, erring and suffering with the eager hope for success, leaving to the just decision of history all our acts; follow us in our struggle against the old order, in the work for a new fo...

186 THE TRAGEDY 187 Hardly four months have passed since those lines were written and our worst fears have already been fulfilled, making what may have then seemed to many unwarrantedly gloomy forebodings, a rather mild and reserved statement of an appalling situation. In these four months Russia...

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...

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 ...

84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 85 The Tragedy of the Russian Revolution nationalists and most valiant fighters for peace unrepresented would clearly be in such an anomalous position as to make its labors highly unsatisfactory. way must therefore be found to make participation by these elements possible. A...

THE TRAGEDY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 87 86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The truth of the matter is that both Socialist factions in Russia are the victims of a cruel fate which constitutes the tragedy of the Russian Revolution. When the Russian Revolution was accomplished, the Russian Revolutionists who we...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRAGEDY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 89 As the moderates were being kicked and cuffed by their Allies in Paris, London and Washington, as their demands for a revision of the old secret treaties being refused, and their pleadings for permission to meet at Stockholm ignored t...

90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 91 The Task of the Constituent Assembly. Republic without a President.
From the Iswestia. Reports of the Council of Deputies of the Workmen and Soldiers. Petrograd, the 13 26 of April, 1917.
Elsewhere in this issue we discuss the situation in Germany.
It is therefore unneces...

118 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 119 the pitiful state into which the Russian working class has fallen by following the extremists.
At the same time the great victories at Riga, and particularly in Italy, have more than offset the semi failure of the boat campaign and have re established th...

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...

290 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALISM 291 up to the present time the Russian proletariat has not been able to organize production on a Socialistic basis, they are only mocking themselves without knowing it. Everywhere the bourgeoisie and the bourgeois intelligentsia place the greate...

322 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 323 powers which at the present period is ameliorating itself every day, On the Northern front the Soviet troops have just re conquered Shenkursk, on the Eastern front having temporarily lost Perm they have re captured Ufa, Starlitamak, Belebey, Orenburg, and Ural...

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...

348 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 349 fraction of the original membership, the right to elect the full quota of delegates allowed to these locals before their reorganization. In Kings County the reorganized local branches, of about 500 members, will send a delegation of to the national conventon,...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE MILITARY PROGRAM 412 413 dom, or, as today, upon wage slavery, the oppressing class is always armed. Not only the standing army of today, but also the militia of today, not excluding that of Switzerland, is armament of the bourgeoisie directed against the proletariat. Surel...

TWO YEARS OF SOVIET RUSSIA 363 362 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ried out seemed to the people to indicate that the energies of the Government were turning principally to internal reforms. The wishes of the people were studied, not only in broad principles, but in details. For the purpose of enabling the wo...