370 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 371 All these elements revolted after the conquest of power by the working class. From the point of view of Socialistic theory this revolt could not possibly come to any of us as a surprise.
Marx wrote apropos of the Paris Commune that the workin...

282 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 283 make common cause with the Irish, but must even take the initiative in dissolving the union between Ireland and England, to put in its place a freer, more liberal relationship. He insisted that this solution alone is commensurate with the inte...

286 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 287 longed to the long dead German Empire. And, therefore, it is maintained that this piece of earth, and the human beings that have grown up upon it, must be confiscated as an eternal possession of the German nation. But if the map of Europe is t...

290 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NEW AMERICANISM 291 political parties in the United States. This freak was known as the American Party or the Know Nothings. It proclaimed itself distinctly American and opposed to the influence of foreigners in politics and education. Its text book, The Sons of the Sir...

308 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DISARMAMENT CRY 309 word must be: arm the proletariat so that it may defeat, expropriate, and disarm the bourgeoisie. This is the only possible policy of the revolutionary class, a policy arising directly from the actual evolution of capitalistic militarism, in fact, di...

404 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 405 The Chief Task of Our Day By LENIN Poor thou art, rich thou art, Strong thou art and weak thou art, Oh Mother Russia. of one over the other. Awakened India will not be dominated by the English, awakened China will not be satisfied with her present status, because no rac...

446 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 447 want in Russia is the crushing of the Soviet Government as such, regardless of the fact that it is anti German and regardless of all proofs of its constructive ability. As the Soviet Government obviously is supported by the great majority of the people, y...

526 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 527 Nevski Prospect. He is no revolutionist who would have the revolution of the proletariat only under the condition that it proceed smoothly and in an orderly manner, that guarantees against defeat be given beforehand, that the revolution...

530 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 531 because they seem so simple and unpretentious, because they take place in the everyday life of the factory districts or in se cluded villages, because they are the deeds of people who are not in the habit of proclaiming their every succ...

578 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 579 Russian land and Russian resources. The Russian people had won the very soul of the German nation.
To day the political fortunes of the German nation lie completely in the hands of the Social Democratic movement. The capitalist system of production in German...

598 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE TORRENT OF THE REVOLUTION 599 beautiful things, she, the source of Life and Poetry, cries, Kill!
Hang! Shoot!
We are here face to face with a fearful and gloomy contradiction, that may well destroy the aureole with which History has surrounded woman. Can it be that w...

130 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN THE SOVIET 131 tions the world over are striving for the six hour day, for the fiveday week. Universal suffrage is on the eve of its realization in every capitalist country: for the revolutionary proletariat it has been superceded by new political ideal...

211 MANIFESTO AND PROGRAM 210 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sions to democracy on the one hand, and its commercial rivalries, armament rings and standing armies on the other, all based on the exploitation of the working class and the division of the loot, was cast into the furnace of war. Two things only c...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 19 necessary to pay for all kinds of war manufacturies, all these the Czarist government attempted to cover by a promiscuous printing of paper money. This course was followed, naturally, by a steady depreciation in the value of paper money, until it was wo...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 13 such separate peace he issued a similar denial, stating that he did not know of a single Socialist of any importance in this country who favored such a peace. The radical Socialists of Germany have always opposed the efforts of the German Governme...

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...

28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 29 there sinks a fighter of the future, a soldier of the revolution, a savior of humanity from the yoke of capitalism, into the grave.
This madness will not stop, and this bloody nightmare of hell will not cease until the workers of Germany, of France, of Russia and of Engla...

30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 31 the fullness of its development of the forces of production; the dynamic, a revolutionary, class conscious proletariat. The material force exists in West Europe, but not in Russia; the dynamic exists in Russia, but, as yet, not in West Europe. N...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 37 ness. Each strike, each mass action, was beaten down, but the totality of results was the weakening of the Czarism and the strengthening of the proletariat, which turned to its own activity in revolutionary mass action. Then came that sweeping u...

44 45 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION the war; peace negotiations should not be carried on by and with bourgeois governments, but with the proletariat in each of the warring countries.
French Commune of 1871, Marx shows that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready made...

54 55 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTIAN their minds. And that is essential for the state. These words epitomize the utter failure, immediately, of the Moscow Conference. But reaction had scored.
And then Kerensky returned to Petrograd, and secretly plotted drastic action against the R...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS FOR FUTURE SOCIALIST HISTORY 111 Documents for Future Socialist History FORWARD!
geoisie and its political agents are exerting all their efforts, in the name of national unity and defence, to castrate the proletariat, to tear it away from the International, and to...

194 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SELF DETERMINATION OF NATIONS 195 And was not the Bonaparte army released, and the support of the Prussian army against the Paris Commune assured by the famous contract between Jules Favre, Thiers and Co. and Bismark? This historical evidence led Karl Marx, 45 years ago, to...

220 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE IN RUSSIA 221 victory, as Mr. Tereshchenko Department was of leading the nation to peace.
This picture of the impotence of the Provisional Government reaches its climax in the labors of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which, to use the words of the most loyal So...