61 SOCIALISTS AND WAR THE CLASS STRUGGLE 60 should be abhorrent to any one under thirty. The youthful reactionary appears to me abnormal and loathsome.
But while we need not be ashamed of our romanticism, we must none the less admit that it is a most deceptive refracting medium through which to o...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 63 62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE When we come to America we constantly talk and write as though American Socialists had the power to affect appreciably the foreign policy of the United States. The first step to right reasoning is to admit that in this domain we are almost if not quite ...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 65 develop chauvinistic Imperialism. cannot here repeat Boudin convincing argument at length. It may, however, be briefly epitomized thus: Hats, shoes and calicoes can be sold under any old flag. Steel rails, steel ships, steam engines and structural iron ...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 67 them of Guesde in France, Hyndman in England and De Leon here?
But aside from this economic reason there are certain special circumstances in the history of the German peoples which made the German army a special danger to freedom and democracy.
The peo...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 69 Why the anarchistic tendency of the race has died out in Germany is one of the great mysteries of history. do not myself believe it is dead. think it merely suffering a transitory obscuration or eclipse. believe that deep down in the subconscious depths...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 71 ward has been in vain. And think it a glorious privilege to be living to day to do one part, however humble, in saving the world from the domination of the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns.
There is even less political democracy in Austria Hungary than in Ge...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 173 72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE were admonished not to disapprove of it on the plea of neutrality. When Germany inaugurated a peace propaganda in this country our party entered upon a peace agitation which was not essentially different in character from that of Germany official and u...

74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 75 modify the environment to suit the race, rather than to trust to the race altering to suit the environment.
Under these conditions our race cannot but perish from the earth should we lose the one thing it possesses that responds to its deepest nature. T...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 77 Socialism is a failure and in despair, La Monte accepts the hypocritical idealism of this war for democracy.
The article is not an argument as much as a soliloquy. La Monte was thinking aloud, and put his thoughts on paper. And the peculiarity of it all...

78 79 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR very justly attacks. And in an article in The New Review, July, 1914, in discussing a certain school of Socialists, said: They neglected individual psychology, assuming that for all practical purposes it was sufficient to know that the social milieu con...

80 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 81 is a decadent culture, the culture of a class that thrives on exploitation and misery. We want none of it. Truly, the conquests of civilization cannot be rejected. We must build upon their basis. But we shall transform and re create. And the proletariat...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 83 There are to day, and always have been, two Socialisms. In spite of a multiplicity of apparent tendencies, fundamentally the Socialist movement has been divided into two groups the opporlunist and the revolutionary. The opportunist has been dominant, an...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 85 84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE and upward development of the race, but to day the nation is a reactionary factor. National wars of liberation and democracy are a thing of the past. Once the carrier of democracy, the nation to day is the carrier of Imperialism. National interests simp...

86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 87 Socialist majority have been compelled to acquiesce in the brutal acts of their government. The government is dominant and the government directs things its own way when there is no independent and aggressive waging of the class struggle.
But the most t...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 89 ten thousand years ago are considered determinant to dayin a world revolutioniezd by steam and electricity, and knit together by the wireless and international trade in all the seven corners of the earth!
The characteristics of the race, the fundamental...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 91 90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE tempted by the bourgeoisie on the eve of the Revolution. Moreover, a distinguishing feature of Imperialism is the acquisition of territory for purposes of exploitation, and we find the nations of the world to day developing more and more in the directio...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 92 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 93 And the United States. The war with Spain and the acquisition of the Philippines are characterized by Walter Weyf in American World Policies, as an experiment in unripe Imperialism. This country financial penetration of Mexico and Venezuela and the grow...

94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 95 agree with La Monte that political liberty and representative institutions are not empty worthless baubles not worth fighting to retain. The preservation and extension of democracy are cardinal features of the revolutionary program of Socialism: the lar...

96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 97 future. And this dictatorship of the ruling class is permanent in its character.
The essential characteristic of autocracy in Germany is not its feudal remnants, but the new form of autocracy produced by Imperialism and State Socialism. What makes a Cap...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 99 98 THE CLASS STRUGGLE racy as such can be waged only as an integral part of our general revolutionary struggle for Socialism. Our action must be international, our way the way of the proletariat of Russia. formerly revolutionary La Monte identifying himself with militarism!
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100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PHILIPP SCHEIDEMANN 101 Philipp Scheidemann PEN PICTURE Philipp Scheidemann, erstwhile compositor, a good public school education to which he has added considerably, an open head, clever, mentally very active. born agitator, familiar with all the tricks of a demagogue. He k...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 103 accuse!
Friedrich Adler Address in Court In the first place must oppose the legend that has been woven about my person. recognized from the beginning that my act would be attributed to a temporary state of mental abberation. was prepared for the cry of the whole ...

J ACCUSE 105 104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ever that is not a subject for discussion. It is not exactly a credit to the possibilities of Austria as a nation to claim that it can be governed only as an absolute monarchy. But the action of the 25th of July, 1914, has nothing to do with the political situa...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 107 explains my act that there is in Austria to day no authority that is competent concerning Austrian constitutionality.
Everyone in Austria says: That does not concern me, am not competent. The responsibility rests with him who has enacted this imperial decree. And...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 109 But in the course of developments this war has evolved a change of functions in the conception of Fatherland.
In former times there were no fatherlands, but simply nations which had to be governed. Since the 70 the ideal of a Lational state has come to life in th...