12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 13 rels which will immediately be patched up the moment the toiling masses should show any sign of revolt the erstwhile enemies uniting their energies in an effort to crush the real common enemy.
The question as to which is the deeper and more fundamental ...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 15 Our strategic power is great. Our course of action will influence profoundly the action of the whole international movement.
May we meet this task in a spirit worthy of the revolutionary character of Socialism!
Herein lies our task: to bring the needed ...

16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 17 tion had been rather peculiarly constituted. We had, on the one side, a primitive system of fragmentary, disorganized, small scale production, on the other, gigantic undertakings which frequently employed 15, 000 to 20, 000 laborers and employees. After...

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...

21 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE come into power. The old, semi feudal, noble, landowning class is overthrown. In its place stand the new rulers, the modern, capitalist bourgeoisie.
But the second step will inevitably follow: the transformation of the fatherland of the Gutschkoff Milju...

22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 23 The War and America By Louis FRAINA The entry of American Capitalism into the war is the culmination of a process interesting in itself, and still more interesting as token of what is to come.
When the war burst upon the world, America and shall use the...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 25 very clear.
two and three hundred per cent. profit? Even an unselfish war for democracy must be made to pay in dollars and cents. Otherwise, what the good of it all?
Only a supreme novelist could adequately describe the emotions of this period; only a s...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 27 26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE January, 1917.
Year, 1916.
Year, 1915.
Aug. to Dec. 31, 1914.
MERCHANDISE Credit Trade Balance (Excess Exports Imports of Exports. 613, 441, 020 241, 674, 851 371, 766, 169 5, 481, 423, 589 2, 391, 654, 335 3, 089, 769, 254 3, 554, 670, 847 1, 778, 596,...

28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 29 The statistics are not significant because of what they express in foreign trade alone. Trade in itself is not a cause of belligerency between nations to day. The statistics of trade must be considered in relation to a nation stage of economic developme...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 31 30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE brutal State Socialism; and the fusion of bourgeois progressivism with Imperialism in the interests of general reaction.
All these factors have been developing rapidly and powerfully before the war, in this country and Europe; and the consequences of th...

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...

34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 35 of the community. All paths of thought and all efforts travel henceforth not from the individual to the mass but the other way around from the mass to the individual. The reversal of attitude is complete. On the basis of the solidarity of the community,...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 37 instrument, merely intended to preserve existing conditions as a sphere of activity. Class solidarity on the other hand is an instrument of offense which is supposed to contain the germs of a future society. It is not for us to investigate here which of...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 39 38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the front the common interests of the entire proletariat independently of all nationality. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the Bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 41 THE CLASS STRUGGLE to make clear this much: that the policy chosen cannot be attacked as a violation of party morality, for it did not violate social thinking, but on the contrary was the result of it. The unity of action was destroyed by the minority. Of course the major...

42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 43 is usual in such cases, the convention came upon us like some elemental force, in a haphazard and disorderly fashion, without any chance for a proper discussion by the membership of the work which it was to do, and, in many instances, without the member...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 45 44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The fact is that the formulation as well as the adoption of the so called majority report was the result of a series of political tricks and manoeuvers such as has seldom been seen before at a Socialist convention.
Leaving out minor differences of opini...

46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 47 one.
American war. The center and the radicals could agree on the attitude towards the war in America, but not on a declaration of principles.
That is to say, if the issues had been made and kept clear, and people were honest with themselves and with ot...

48 49 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE delegates. Which proves conclusively that the so called majority report was no majority report at all, and that it was adopted by trick and chicanery nearly one half of those voting for it not being for it at all and voting for it merely as the result o...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 51 50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE noted here that long before the platform came to be voted upon formal protest was made upon the floor of the convention against the convention doing any further business, as the convention was neither physically nor mentally able to combine its delibera...

52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 53 manac.
rather less valuable than the weather forecasts of a Hicks AlNevertheless it may be worth while to consider briefly the general tendencies indicated by such outlines of the experiment as are available.
The formal announcement issued to the public...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 55 The discussion of esthetics is, in proportion, sufficiently extended, but in spirit and technical grasp it falls below the other sections. Under this head Dr. Flexner includes all the child art activities, recreations and sports. No classics in literatu...

56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 57 which the coming generation will face with the equipment which their school is to give. They would say, if they were cross examined that a person trained to face real problems in a realistic way is fitted to attack the high cost of living or the struggl...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 59 Though the war making agencies are largely economic, the Red Cross is no less their accomplice in keeping warfare alive.
Before the United States frankly took its stand as a belligerent nation its first official function in relation to the war consisted...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 61 We should contemplate with amazement surgeons and nurses attempting to save lives, and at the same time working in co operation with murderous men, equipped with the newest appliances of science, bent upon destroying lives all zealously striving togethe...