62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 63 capitalistic seekers for markets and economic aggrandizement.
The Red Cross executive, doctor, nurse, and helper prefer the approval and applause of this so called upper class. To give themselves to the cause of the lowly and of the exploited poor with ...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 65 To be sure, such arguments will not be nearly as effective as stern necessity itself, in forcing the bourgoisie and the government to take heed. But they will maintain their old principle, that in a peaceful, capitalist state of society everyone must ta...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 67 The most important of the large industrial branches could be brought, easily, into national ownership. This could be done, without difficulty with the direct war industry.
The question of employment for the returning soldiers, too, would be solved for t...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 69 that added taxation would reduce the standard of living of the working class even more than before. But they forget that the standard of living is not fixed, that it is determined by that which the worker is in a position to demand, and to win from the ...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 71 flood has risen to the throats of the ruling class; and in order to save their valuable lives, and their still more valuable property, they are lending a hand, to a lying and rotten compromise.
First there came, on April 8, the famous Order of the Kaise...

72 73 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE at once with your subordinate bureaus and to call their attention to the exceedingly critical conditions under which the urban population, and particularly the ammunition industry, are suffering at the present time. The food commission must, through tho...

74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 75 possessed more influence over the decisions of Bethmann Hollweg during the war, than the once so mighty Junker court camarilla.
The Court Jews have pushed aside the old Court Nobility.
measure the inner political life of Germany seem imminent. So, for i...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 77 to a bodyguard and protector of the Emperor, which not only in the August days of 1914 fell into the lying trap of the government, but even now, when the true character of this imperialistic war for conquest stands openly revealed still remain the volun...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 78 79 THE CLASS STRUGGLE times of peace the tactics of its national groups on questions of militarism, on colonial policy, trade questions, May demonstrations, and the tactics of its national entities in times of war. The next duty of the socialist movement is the mental libera...

81 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 80 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ways will, be the most trusted supporter of the monarchy, because it knows, that it needs its help. Like every other capitalistically highly developed bourgeoisie, it will rather sell its soul to the devil than become socialistic, would open the gates o...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 83 and had to pay annual tribute to the capitalists of the older European nations, it has in a short space of time developed into a country that is able to exact tribute from the Old World and its dependencies. That fact ought to arrest our attention, for ...

84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 85 they possess neither raw materials nor sufficient machinery, and millions of their best workers have been slain, whilst the greater part of the working male population have been estranged from their accustomed tasks, performing the rude labor of war. Th...

86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 87 peoples their place and stake out places in the sun, spheres of influence and other claims, became the political and spiritual leaders of the peoples, and transplanted to their native country the manners and ideas they had acquired in dealing with socal...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 89 Current Affairs CONSCRIPTION In the name of our war for democracy, freedom, and the national honor of America we have plucked the first fruit from the tree of American militarism: selective conscription. And so, whatever the outcome of this war for cult...

90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 91 important privilege, the right to take an active part in the great industrial and political struggles that will break out in this country in the near future.
But it may also be the means of arousing the American working class from its attitude of mental...

92 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 93 The New Republic has recently attempted the thankless job of showing The Evolution of a National Policy in relation to the Great War in plain English: an apology for the seemingly inconsistent conduct of Mr. Woodrow Wilson. We recommend the performance ...

94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 95 cause of complaint she paid for our food in good current cash, and being strictly neutral English money is as good as German money.
Then came the German submarine, which really threatened our trade. Not in the way the British blockade did by making us t...

96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 97 And Representative McCulloch (Republican, Ohio) thus expressed our war aims in the House. believe that we should enter this war merely for the purpose of protecting our rights, and when we succeed in forcing Germany, if we should so succeed, in recogniz...

98 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 99 There are others; there will be more. And it is our task, it is the task of the socialists and the workers to get into the fight against reaction, and to defend their own. No faltering! On with the struggle against Capitalism!
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100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 101 as well as of the wisdom of those who attempted to harmonize it by straddling the issues and create a fictitious majority where there was none. In our opinion this was a grave error, as our movement must be frank and sincere above all. If there was no...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 103 to disregard those safeguards which the law and trade union rules have established for the protection of their lives, health and efficiency.
The super patriotic effusions of some of our labor leaders in offering to sacrifice their safeguard on the alt...

105 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the Vorwaerts at a time when the Russian proletariat has not only swept away the Czarish regime, but dares to carry on the fight for a Socialist republic, over the heads of the capitalist revolutionary government.
This statement, in favor of monarchis...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 107 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 1914, to uphold the Hohenzollern dynastic autocracy and to undermine the Russian revolutionary movement. On the contrary: he was then fighting Czarism in practice, and in theory he adhered to the innocent looking formula of being a German first and a ...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 109 aims of the bourgeois liberals, the same as that which demoralized the proletarian movement in England and France. And so incompatible is this with the task of bringing about an actual and genuine democracy in Russia, that Jules Guesde demanded quite ...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 111 THE FIRST APPEAL OF THE INDEPENDENT SOCIALDEMOCRACY OF GERMANY The German Social Democratic Party opposition, which united at a Conference held at Easter in the city of Gotha as the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, has published the fol...