21 THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sighs does he admit the possibility that, in order to overthrow the system of the exploiters, it may be necessary, unfortunately, mind you. to use force; but every application of force demoralizes, as it were, him who uses it. And this is said in ...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 19 tation of Marxism, acceptable only to the bourgeoisie, and founded in theory on a complete ignoring of the important circumstances and reflections expressed in the summarizing passage from Engels that is above quoted in full.
First. At the very be...

16 17 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION The Dying Out of the State and Revolution By Force Engels words concerning the dying out of the state have now such wide circulation, they are so frequently quoted, and they so sharply indicate the nature of the customary misrepresentation of Marx...

15 THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ther presentation of the views of Marx and Engels on the state as it now is.
The final summing up of his views is given by Engels in his most popular work, as follows: ment with the industrialists, or merely a friendly understanding? What is the r...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 13 The State is the Instrument of the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class For the maintenance of a special social power standing above society, there is necessary the imposition of taxes and obligations toward the state. Ruling by social power and by...

THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 11.
10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE to the complex texture of social life, the differentiation of functions, etc.
Such references look scientific. they lull the philistine to intellectual repose and softly obliterate the main point: the separation of society into irreconcilably hos...

THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 9 THE CLASS STRUGGLE site (the class opposed to it. is altogether beyond the comprehension of the petit bourgeois democracy. Their relation to the state is one of the most striking indications that our and Mensheviki are not socialists at all (we Bolsheviki have repeatedl...

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...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE counts for the flood of falsehood and calumny which poured upon the heads of the brave leaders and their revolutionary movement from the filthy mouthpieces of the robber regime of criminal capitalism throughout the world.
The rise of the working class is the red spectre in th...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DAY OF THE PEOPLE sia, and the near future will determine whether revolution has for once been really triumphant or whether sudden reaction has again won the day.
In the struggle in Russia the revolution has thus far triumphed for the reason that it has not compromised. T...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLAS STRUGGLE Vol. III FEBRUARY, 1919 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 243 55th Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year CONTENTS Page Editors: EUGENE DEBS, LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. III FEB...

THE CL4 STANGGE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. III FEBRUARY, 1919 No. The Day of the People By EUGENE DEBS The State and Revolution By NICOLAI LENIN Problems of American Socialism By LOUIS FRAINA Karl Marx By FRANZ MEHRING Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg By LUDWIG LORE Price, 25 Cents...

640 THE CLASS STRUGGLE One Year of Revolution Silently Russia bares her wounds to the German people. Now, while the German people is passing through hours of serious trial, joy is absent also from the hearts of Russians. The Russian workers desire no victory for American or London capital; they h...

DOCUMENTS 639 638 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 3, 1918. Art. IV of the Brest Litovsk Treaty granted to the populations of the provinces of Kars, Erzchem, and Batum, which had been a part of the Russian Republic, the right to establish a new regime based on an understanding with neighboring powers, particul...

636 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 637 An Appeal of the Soviet Government We Pravda of August 1st issues the following appeal to the proletariat of the Entente countries, written by Lenin, Chicherin, and Trotzky: The entire capitalist press of your countries is howling with a hoarse voice, like a d...

634 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 635 Documents Protest of the Independent Labor Party of England The International Socialist Commission in Stockholm transmits the following protest of the Central Committee of the Independent Labor Party of England against the intervention of the Entente in Russia...

632 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 633 the exploited classes, even on peace terms, is impossible. The delegations of the capitalist countries will not and cannot include real representatives of the working class.
Samuel Gompers, the anti Socialist, is the victim of the socialist epidemic that has ...

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 ...

628 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 629 One Measure For All In the excitement that attended the latest trials of socialist and labor leaders in this country, one of the most shameful attacks that have ever been perpetrated against organized labor has been well nigh forgotten. Now comes the news tha...

626 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 62 tation of having candidated for almost every office in the gift of his party without ever having been elected, whose reputation as a cheap wit after dinner speaker makes him a popular guest at such intellectual feasts, charged the red flag in a venomous speech...

624 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 625 as a criminal in the eyes of justice, after forty years spent in the struggle for labor, a struggle that began with a prison sentence earned in the cause of labor, he proclaimed the right of every human being to fight against capitalism and all forms of capit...

622 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 623 gretted, for men of, their caliber would have laid a good foundation for the more numerous socialist Congressional delegations of the future.
The Assembly delegation at Albany was cut down from 10 to and has lost its best timber. Let us hope that the two comr...

620 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 621 skillful newspaper and publicity propaganda, together with overtime wages of a considerable portion of the workers had created a determination to see it through in place of the former opposition.
Nothing is known as yet about the results in the West.
This in ...

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...

616 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 617 EDITORIALS The Bubble Has Burst ing to send it elsewhere to seek its freedom, if it is not to remain at home in privation and slavery. The mass will free itself at home, it will at last meet the problem where it originated, it will solve the antagonism between owning an...