18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 19 its own product as directly answers its needs, and exchanging the balance with similar producing organizations for such useful articles as it does not itself produce. And this view is undoubtedly justified by the historic origins of the modern na...

20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 21 of this new development was the Reformation. Contrary to the assurances of our school histories and similar sources of information, the Reformation was least of all a religious movement. In so far as it did not directly aim at economic results, i...

23 THE PASSING OF THE NATION 22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE In order that we may be able to judge fairly of the tendencies of recent and contemporaneous thought, we must remind ourselves of the ideal political state of the nationalistic mode of thought, which is: Every Nation one State, and every State on...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 25 In this connection, it is well to remember that Dr. Naumann is neither a militarist nor an imperialist in the ordinary sense of the word. On the contrary, he is a democrat, and there are people who think he is almost a Socialist. It must also be ...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 27 Why should German Bohemians or Tzechs have defended the Ridge of the Vosges. There must have been some serious interests that made these people fight these to them, at any rate non national fights; and these serious interests can be relied upon t...

THE PASSING OF THE NATION 29 28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE We seem to have reached this, the final stage in the evolution towards internationalism, at least in the form of supernationalism.
In this connection, another book deserves our attention a book written about the same time as Naumann Middle Europe...

30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 31 its independent judiciary, and yoke itself to a conglomeration of foreign nationalities, of different race and tongue, and with different history and traditions, was simply preposterous.
But Prof. Usher is not shocked at the thought of Pan Americ...

32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 33 country; and nearly any part of the United States has more regular contact with New York or Chicago than with any other part of North America. Isolation is more a matter of time than of space, and common interests are due to the ease of transport...

35 34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Russian Revolution By KARL KAUTSKY that a union between the thirteen states was impossible, and that each sovereign state ought to go it alone. There were also those who, like our own Dr. Naumann, realized that it was impossible for each state to go it alone, but who ...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 37 It was this fear of the masses that led the representatives of French nobility on that famous 4th of August, 1789, to voluntarily sacrifice their feudal rights.
In this stage, coalition governments, with representatives of the working class, may be ...

38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 39 advantage of their victory. Nor has the revolution given to Russia any war measure that would place it at an advantage over its opponents.
And there is still another difference. The significance of the French revolution was tremendous. It was the si...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 41 Our Obedient Congress By LUDWIG LORE The war session of the Sixty fifth Congress deserves the good rating it received from the President down to the cheapest politician. For never before did an American parliament so obediently swallow so many bitter...

OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 43 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE appropriation of 3, 281, 094, 541. 60 for Army and Navy expenditures arising out of the war. But this insignificant sum of more than three and a quarter billion dollars was a comparatively small item, for the same law granted to the President immense...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 45 everything in its power and a little more to make autocracy and reaction the dominant factor in this country. It talked about the liberties that must be preserved and then acted in exactly the opposite direction. It is a remarkable fact, indeed, that...

OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 47 46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Food Bill is, essentially, a measure that would deserve the undivided support of Congress as an act giving the President and the Food Administration the greatest possible latitude in the vigorous prosecution of that group of American profiteers w...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 49 Political Parties in Russia By LENIN. Aids to an understanding of the proposed platform drawn up by Lenin for discussion at Bolshevik meetings. The printing of the proposed platform has thus far been held up only by the insufficient typographical resources at Petrograd. T...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 51 Small entrepreneurs, small and middle class proprietors, small and more or less well to do peasants, petite bourgeoisie, as well as those workers who have submitted to a bourgeois point of view. Class conscious workers, day laborers and the poo...

52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 53 Absolutely unnecessary. Immediately and unconditionally universal arming of the people shall be introduced so that they and the militia and the army shall be an integral whole. Capitalists must pay the workers for their days of service in the m...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 55 Yes, but it remains to be decided whether they must be removed before or after consulting the Advisory Commission. They are in every respect indispensable. The soldiers will obey only the powers of their own choice; they can respect no others.
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56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 57 made from the Germans (their colonies) and take away from the Germans all conquests made by those robbers. We shall, since we have not yet relinquished all the unfounded hopes which the petite bourgeoisie attaches to the capitalists. No, for th...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 59 tion, that is, their passing over into the possession of the whole people.
23. What form of Socialist International, establishing and realizing a brotherly union of all the workers in all countries, is now desirable for the nations? and General...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 61 II This fact became particularly apparent when the new government not only did not publish the secret treaties concluded between the late Czar and the capitalist governments of England, France, etc. but even formally confirmed these secret trea...

62 63 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA the taking over of all the powers of government in all the belligerent countries by the revolutionary proletariat.
with Germany. We consider the German capitalists to be the same band of robbers as the capitalists of Russia, England, France, et...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 65 Imperialism and the New Middle Class By RUTGERS by the levying of taxes, resulted in a greater amount of misery, exploitation and starvation than in the worst periods of direct colonial plunder. This was the era of free trade in which inte...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE CLASS 67 process of production and especially of distribution under Capitalism. only mention two points: First, the enormous waste in foreign investments and foreign enterprises. great many of the railroads and other colonial experiments do not yie...