272 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 273 publish it in hamlet, in town, from country to country, from nation to nation: that there is no hope for the sons of labor until those whose interests are identical with theirs, have an equal right to decide what laws shall be passed, what pla...

270 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 271 Marx and the International By HERMANN SCHLUETER fully expressed the needs of the times, because an international union of labor had to arise to take up arms against the internationalism of capital. Therefore it re echoed, from North to South, from East to West, like a t...

268 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 269 to make only slow, hardly noticeable progress, as was the case at the time when his Capital was being written, this is no cause for despair. He recognized that the conditions for the realization of the socialist goal are created, as a historical necessity, by ...

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...

264 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 265 tion, to turn it, by the recognition of its historic significance, into more clearly defined and more consistent channels.
Earlier French and English writers had conceived of history as a series of class struggles taking place under everchanging forms and cond...

262 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 263 into direct contact with the socialist labor movement. At that time it was still a secret organization. In his writings he relentlessly attacked all radicalism and socialism that failed to take account of the political struggles of the times or deemed itself s...

260 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 261 KARL MARX By LUDWIG LORE ever In the midst of the bloodiest slaughter the world seen we have celebrated the centenary of the birth of the man who hurled the words Workers of all countries, unite, into the world.
And yet we know that the teachings of Karl Marx ...

258 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DIVINE RIGHT OF HOHENZOLLERN 259 by means of a separate peace with Austria. But even if the Hohenzollern were not the saviors of the Reformation, they certainly were its beneficiaries. Even though they hadn the least ambition to fight for the cause of the Reformation, t...

256 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DIVINE RIGHT OF HOHENZOLLERN 257 divine right of bribery, of open purchase, of petty thievery, of legacy hunting, and traitorous partition agreements.
In the beginning of the 15th century the Margraviate of Brandenburg belonged to the house of Luxemburg, at the head of ...

254 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DIVINE RIGHT OF HOHENZOLLERN 255 instance in the history of Austria. In the case of the latter we see one and the same prince as chosen head of the empire, and as feudal lord of a province of the same empire, by descent, intriguing against the empire in the interest of ...

252 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DIVINE RIGHT OF HOHENZOLLERN 253 The Divine Right of the Hohenzollern By KARL MARX Europe, just now, is interested in only one great questionthat of Neuenburg. That is to say, if we are to credit the Prussian newspapers. The principality of Neuenburg, even if we include...

250 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DIVINE RIGHT OF HOHENZOLLERN 251 the reasons described by Marx, or as the loyal Prussian historian, Stenzel, puts it, after many promised favors had been secured by them. Indeed, a divine reason for the Divine Right of the Hohenzollern to Neuenburg.
It is not quite corr...

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...

THE CL4 STANGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. II MAY JUNE, 1918 No. The Devine Right of the Hohenzollern By KARL MARX Karl Marx and The International By HERMANN SCHLUETER The Rape of Finland Labor Republic By SANTERI NUORTEVA The Disarmament Cry By LENIN

248 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the people of all the nations to govern themselves in their own way, have great hope of a strong and hearty response from the German people. If they did not respond, at least should be sadly disappointed and should, think, have to change absolutely my views of them, Once we...

246 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 247 liver those speeches here. find that this change in temper, generally speaking, applies to every district in which have been during the past few months. Though it is well known everywhere what my views are, and that have been and am in direct opposition to the...

DOCUMENTS 245 244 THE CLASS STRUGGLE on the miners of this country. They fully expect, if the mines are owned and controlled by the state, that the workmen will have a considerable voice in the management in view of the fact that they have more than livelihood at stake. Their safety of life and l...

242 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 243 Moreover, there seemed to be a special desire to have miners on the part of the military authorities, who stated on many occasions that miners made the best class of soldiers. They had been used to facing dangers all their lives in mine work. The nature of the...

240 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 241 manner by a backward majority out in the provinces it is quite possible that the threatening elements seek to retain their position by working for complete independence for the provinces, aye, for the communes, as for example the Bakunin adherents in Spain in ...

238 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 239 but a bourgeois and not a Socialist revolution, rests on a proletariat possessed of a far clearer class consciousness, and which has far more clearly realized its implacable antagonism to the bourgeois world, than any proletariat participating in any of Europe...

236 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 237 Documents for Future Socialist History is merely a means to an end the end being the realization of our several national objects. Your national objects may be of a different kind than mine. Your situation makes you disinterested in the acquisition of territory, at least...

234 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 235 countries bad war aims, and proceeds to draw the following lesson from the misfortunes of the Allies during the three years of the world war. Surely the moral of these repeated defeats, all associated with the pursuit by members of the Allied coalition o...

232 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 233 possible. No nation can do so without being independent in its own internal affairs. fail to understand how Poland will become annexed to Germany by being declared an independent state, especially if the Polish speaking part of Austria and of Germany (Ga...

230 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 231 German imperialism more palatable to his Socialist readers.
Mr. Berger assured them that the Kaiser Balkan policy had been approved in advance by Karl Marx himself, and that Scheidemann and Co. in supporting that policy were carrying out the last will an...

228 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 229 But how about the preliminary conversations now being carried on in the form of dialogue across the Channel and ocean. why cannot the preliminary agreement be reached by this method? Evidently because the noble Lord and his no less noble friend across th...