July 19, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Four THE MOONEY STRIKE THE COMMUNIST It must be admitted that viewing the country as a whole OFFICIAL ORGAN or THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA the Mooney Strike was a failure. Whether the next period of the strike in September, makes a better showing or not depende...

July 19, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Pag. Three On the Party Horizon org.
sons. By ALEXANDER STOKLITSKY Comrade Lenin, in his pam CIALIST PARTY IS NOTHING:mal development of our move cover the nudity of their unphlet Lessons of the Revolu LESS THAN THE ECHO OF ment.
tion, lays great stress upon the THE DE...

19, 1918 Bulletins THE COMMUNI3T Page Two social and national oppression we call upon the proletarian council form of organization for its expression over a continued period of time.
of all lands to unite! Applying our declarations of party principle to the Program of the Call ment of the United ...

The Communist Official Paper of the Communist Party of America Vol. I, No. Chicago, III. Saturday, July 12, 1919 Five Cents Call for a National Convention For the Purpose of Organizing the Communist Party of America In this the most momentous period of the world history form of the rule of the fi...

448 THE CLASS STRUGGLE it must suffer and tolerate unspeakable exploitation and oppression in the interests of the capitalist class or revolution.
There is no other answer to the situation as it exists today.
Revolution and fraternization with the Soviet Government of Russia, or hunger, want and ...

EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE 446 447 fused to co operate with them, Scheidemann would quickly enough have vanished, completely discredited from the scene The German people pinned their highest hopes to the government under Ebert Haase. But the very first days of their regime showed that the ruli...

444 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 445 months truce could be carried out. It is not in the power of either side of the controversy or struggle to cease fighting.
The struggle they are waging is the very essence of their existence.
The class conscious workingman, therefore, never even for a moment ...

EDITORIALS 443 442 THE CLASS STRUGGLE termined part of the organized workers of Germany at least would have begun open warfare upon the imperialistic militarist clique a few years earlier than actually was the case.
To prepare and arrange for such political mass action a close unity of industrial...

440 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 441 ing, of losing their respectability in the eyes of the general public. Since bitter experience in the German and Austrian Revolutions has taught us the necessity of educating the workers to the right kind of revolutionary methods, unless this is done the Amer...

EDITORIALS 439 438 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Editorials The Socialist Publication Society decided at a Special Meeting to give over THE Class STRUGGLE with all the pamphlets and books published during its existence to the Communist Labor Party of the of America.
The Nat. Executive Committee of the accep...

EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE 436 437 AHTAUKCKNA.
PARLIAMENT OR SOVIET The beginnings of a Township Co operative may be formed through the free organization of any number of small farmers who combine for co operative work.
24.
The socialized industries shall aid the Township Co operatives by the ...

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...

432 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 433 cialism as officers of the firm. The political form of the dominion of capital was reformed, given a new base.
But the political revolution was at the same time the point of departure of the conflict between Capital and Labor which swept over Germany in a ser...

430 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 431 country itself did not bring up the land question, the Scheidemann servants of the bourgeoisie and the Junkers had no cause for grasping this hot iron. Some of the medieval rubbish, such as the rules for servants, was abolished on paper the estate districts we...

428 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 429 and mine are asserting their right and power to rule, and be masters of their own destiny.
Your masters see that the spirit of revolt is spreading to your countries. In both England and America the idea of Bolshevism is making rapid headway. Great Labor demons...

426 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 427 WHY DON YOU RETURN HOME?
To the American and British Soldiers conmen and peasant deputies) is the only real democratic Government in the world?
Of course you don know all this. Because your masters are afraid to tell you the truth about revolutionary Russia. T...

424 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 425 Documents Bolshevist Propaganda WHY DON THEY SEND YOU HOME?
impetuous insistence and his creative criticism contributed their full share in causing the Junius pamphlet to be created so soon and so masterfully, just as it is due to his iron will that it could be printed ...

422 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 423 where it would begin its triumphal course.
The Russian Revolution was to be the subject of a second Junius pamphlet, some of whose outlines had already been hastily sketched by Rosa Luxemburg. The murderous hand of the German culture bearing military has ...

420 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 421 right bankruptcy, as the inner expression of a social patriotic labor party imbued with bourgeois ideals, a party that has sold the proud revolutionary birthright of the proletariat for even less than the mess of pottage demanded by Kautsky for the empty ...

ROSA LUXEMBURG 418 419 THE CLASS STRUGGLE months later the Junius pamphlet was finished. Rosa Luxemburg did not allow her imprisonment to be a breathing spell for the enemy. They would not let her fight. With stubborn courage she replied to the power attacking her, Very well, now ll fight all the...

416 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 417 But to be sure, by this time the Social Democratic Party had already turned its misguided steps toward parliamentarism, it was fast becoming a bourgeois party, and its fear of mass action was already leading to its surrender to militarism and imperialism....

414 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 415 wars, not by means of kind wishes, but by overthrowing and disarming the bourgeoisie.
Whoever in view of this last war is not willing to carry out this demand, let him be good enough to refrain from uttering large words about the international revolutiona...

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...

410 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE MILITARY PROGRAM 411 perialistic powers would result in the participation of a second imperialistic power in competition with the first, and that thús every national war is changed into an imperialistic war. But this argument also is not true. It may be true, but it is ...

408 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 409 The Military Program of the Prole tarian Revolution By LENIN Bourgeois history, its art and its literature tell us at every turn that the development of the social system is the work of great minds. Small wonder, then, that they seek to place the responsibility for the ...