10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 11 vasion was sufficient, as the most obvious instinct of self preservation was thereby called into play, but there were also other self regarding sentiments which aided the war appeal. As Liebknecht charged in the May Day speech for which he is now su...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 13 capable of producing a psychological effect antagonistic to that desired by the government. Even in its extreme use this does not necessarily imply that all criticisms of the government are forbidden, as we can see in the notable case of Maximilian ...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 15 public by the instruments of publicity, all of which are in the hands of the government group. These have heretofore been the press, the pulpit and the speeches of statesmen and politicians. To them the British government at least has added during t...

16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 17 Such ideas cannot be formulated by the dominant classes, for they are not in accordance with their interests. The new catchwords must of necessity be democratic. Among them the word solidarity, whose significance was only beginning to be ...

19 SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE during the first days of mobilization. But on the whole such instances must have been rather exceptional among the German Socialists. On the whole, the German Socialists could not have been much different in their make up and ideas after ...

20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 21 SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR derstanding that relation that we can get anywhere in any re orientation within the Socialist movement.
Von Clausewitz, the great authority on war, has said that war is merely a continuation of politics by the use of different means ns mu...

22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 23 common cause for the defence of the common interest. They need not necessarily settle their quarrels in fact, it would be impossible to do so, in the nature of things but they must patch up a truce, forget their differences for the time b...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 25 of the workers wirich is their only hope of emancipation. The workers cannot, therefore, make commor cause with their own capitalists in any such industrial struggle, and must not participate in the same.
So much for the class struggle po...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 26 27 improved even while we are fighting for its transformation.
He also believes ihat it may be made much worse than it is, and that the fight against its going backward is a necessary part of the endeavor to push it forward. Furthermore, he ...

28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 29 ار quarrels of the capitalist class and, therefore, matters of supreme indifference to the working class. The Socialist agrees with the anarchist that the entire matter is a capitalist family quarrel. He therefore agrees with the anarchis...

31 SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE from the industry to the economic entity, called the nation.
Mind you, not the racial or cultural nation, but the economic one. Or, to be more exact, it is not a question of the nation at all, but of the political entity, the state, repre...

33 SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE of the workers within these different countries will be intimately connected with the prosperity of their respective countries, and so long will the workers of the different countries be reduced to the unfortunate necessity of fighting ea...

34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 35 the great war seems to me to be beyond any doubt. That the points of view and policies labelled trade union, anarchist and Socialist respectively have actually been followed by the groups whose names have so used, do not contend. In fact,...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR LEGISLATURE 37 War Legislature By JOSEPH WHITEBORN Socialist Member of State Assembly In observing and judging the New York Assembly, it is not only profitable but proper to note the physical surroundings.
The Assembly Chamber is a tremendously large room, about two hund...

A WAR LEGISLATURE 39 38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Those who believe that there is any difference between the two old parties live in dreamland. No such difference was discernible, even in broad daylight, while one watched the Legislature at work.
It was the most usual thing, an ordinary matter of course...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR LEGISLATURE 11 ing to PEACE times. Who these domestic enemies are we need not guess very long.
The Governor was also authorized to take a census of the military resources of the State. What the Governor has done in exercising that authority, the people of this State have...

A WAR LEGISLATURE 43 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Mr. Whitman, who will most probably seek to be again elected Governor, in order to obtain the Republican nomination for President in 1920, was too scared to sign this bill. His political ambitions saved the day for the workers of the State, temporarily.
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44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR LEGISLATURE 45 to Thirty five Hundred Dollars a year, and while the Borough Presidents were raised from Five Thousand and Seventy five Hundred Dollars a year to Ten Thousand Dollars per annum the Street Cleaners were allowed to get along as best they may upon their old w...

46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL MAJORITIES 47 and vested rights. That the writer had neither the authority nor the desire to represent such interests. That he represented but human souls, that he was contending but for the rights of human beings, therefore he required all of the twenty minutes gi...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL MAJORITIES 49 axioms were overthrown by this new factor, which was puzzling not merely because of its newness, but equally, because it seemed to contradict and nullify the accumulated unvarying experience of years.
The market had collapsed in 1907, but as a direct ...

POLITICAL MAJORITIES 51 50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE It is not impossible, on the other hand, for a government to tend away from political functions. When the Brazilian government supervises the storing and marketing of coffee, or when the government furnishes crop estimates and forecasts that have a tr...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL MAJORITIES 52 53 whereas we have always been and still are the custodians of personal and political liberty to a far greater extent than can be appreciated by the other less fortunate peoples. The correctness or incorrectness of this view must have a very material bea...

5 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL MAJORITIES 55 no antagonisms and if it took care of all by satisfying the interests and needs of each, then law and order would be inherent in the harmony of industry. The co ordinated action of the various industrial spheres would be about the extent of government ...

POLITICAL MAJORITIES 57 56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE That is the situation in America to day, the same as in other nations, because irrespective of past differences, the present essentials are identical in all advanced countries. And we, like they, are developing physical force as a means of making our ...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 59 For the organization of big capital is inherent in industry and is consequently automatic. The middle class and the working class are automatically disorganized by industry, and must reach a stage of organization comparable to that of big capital by a m...