34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 35 influence, and a new ideology. Industry developed in great proportions, absorbed from without and reproducing all the features of large scale, concentrated industry. The industrial technology, not being developed slowly from within but acquired ...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 37 ness. Each strike, each mass action, was beaten down, but the totality of results was the weakening of the Czarism and the strengthening of the proletariat, which turned to its own activity in revolutionary mass action. Then came that sweeping u...

38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 39 antagonism of the proletariat to the bourgeois policy is not disorganized, inchoate, unaware of means and purposes: but organized and disciplined, the instincts of the masses unerringly pointing the way to future action, in spite of immediate he...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 41 tions and control of industry weights the balance in favor of the ruling class. Revolutions march from action to action; action, more action, again action, supplemented by an audacity that shrinks at nothing, these are the tactics of the proleta...

43 THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE of the proletariat. The Mensheviki represented those social elements which everywhere have dominated organized Socialismthe intellectuals, liberal democrats, small traders and the lower bourgeoisie, and above all, skilled labor, which everywhere...

44 45 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION the war; peace negotiations should not be carried on by and with bourgeois governments, but with the proletariat in each of the warring countries.
French Commune of 1871, Marx shows that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready made...

46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 47 the power of the proletariat, and that it was necessary to stir the European proletariat into action. Moreover, the Bolsheviki organized a campaign to split the peasantry, to align the proletarian peasantry with the revolutionary workers. This p...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 49 talk but could not act, because of the antagonism of class interests; or else, under the pressure of events, it might act, but in the interest of one or the other group. It was no accident of history that the head of this government was Kerensky...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 51 tionary policy was abandoned, and the Council co operated with the infamous gathering of the social patriots at Stockholm, against the protests of the Bolsheviki, who insisted on co operation only with revolutionary Socialism. It required only t...

52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 53 action to defend the Revolution. demonstration was organized for July 17 in Petrograd. All parties, including the Bolsheviki, tried to prevent the demonstration, the Bolsheviki because they knew counter revolutionary gangs had been organized to ...

54 55 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTIAN their minds. And that is essential for the state. These words epitomize the utter failure, immediately, of the Moscow Conference. But reaction had scored.
And then Kerensky returned to Petrograd, and secretly plotted drastic action against the R...

THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 57 56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The rapidity of events should not obscure their developmental character. As a revolutionary process, the proletarian revolution in Russia has developed through all the necessary historical stages. The overthrow of Czarism resulted in the establi...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 59 This was why the Bolsheviki did not wait for the Constituent Assembly to convene before pressing their demands. The fact of complete revolution had first to be accomplished; and they overthrew the government of Kerensky through the action of the...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 61 transition period, whose state can be nothing else than the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. The theory of Marx is the practice of the proletarian revolution in Russia. The dictatorship of the proletariat ruthlessly annihilates the...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 63 war against world Imperialism. This was not the war Kerensky waged, nor is it a war desired by the Allies. Peace is a means to an end: the Social Revolution in Europe. The international policy of revolutionary Russia is to arouse this proletaria...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 65 As the tactics of the proletarian revolution in Russia are synthesized into the general mass action of the proletariat, so its internal and international policy are synthesized into the aspiration and the struggle for the Social Revolution of th...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 67 marks the entry of the international proletariat into a new revolutionary epoch. In this epoch the Social Revolution is no longer an aspiration, but a dynamic process of immediate revolutionary struggles.
This is an historic fact of the utmost i...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMISTICE ON ALL FRONTS 69 Armistice on All Fronts By LUDWIG LORE Negotiations in Brest Litovsk are still under way. But the last three weeks have been a deadlock and today it is practically certain that they will lead to no settlement between the two parties. As a matter of...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ARMISTICE ON ALL FRONTS 71 nations. But the Entente refused all participation in the proposed conference and Russia was placed before the alternative to negotiate with the imperialists of the Entente on plans for further warfare, or to negotiate with the imperialists of the ...

72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 73 George, and even Clemenceau, have underscored his statements; the people of Germany and Austria are forcing their rulers to recognize the same principles. The nations of the world are practically united upon the aim and end of the war and still the insane slaughter goes o...

THE COMMON ENEMY 75 74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE And if the latter, then on which side was the working class to range itself? Which of the two upper classes was the workers worst enemy, so that it behooved them to make common cause with the other?
And if so, The problem of the common enemy is as old as ...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE COMMON ENEMY 77 bourgeoisie against the remnants of feudalism in the form of aristocratic and monarchical institutions. Accordingly, the Socialist theorists intellectuals of that epoch put very little value upon political forms, and generally counseled the workers again...

78 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE COMMON ENEMY 79 mistake supposes, influenced so much by a desire to keep you down, as by an anxiety to retain the means of securing to themselves a comfortable and respectable enjoyment of life. Let them distinctly perceive that the ameliorations which you are about to e...

THE COMMON ENEMY 81 80 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The same basic ideas hatred toward unbridled and irresponsible individualism; faith in the God given or natural leaders of the people, the order loving and responsible nobility; and consequent repugnance to parliamentarism and purely polita ical activitie...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE COMMON ENEMY 83 mercial classes to devour the substance of England, to oppress and exploit the toiling masses, and use the nobility and priesthood as a means for cover in this nefarious work. There are those who are willing, who are determined, whatever it may cost them,...