406 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CHIEF TASK OF OUR DAY 407 has communicated to our national productive forces to create a really rich and powerful Russia.
Russia may become such if we cast aside all discouragement and all oratory, if we strain every nerve and tighten every muscle, if we understand that...

408 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CHIEF TASK OF OUR DAY 409 order to provide repose and healing for his army, which has become sick with disintegration and demoralization.
We have signed a Peace of Tilsit. When Napoleon forced Prussia in 1807 to make such a peace, he destroyed all the German armies, occ...

410 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 411 Laborism and Socialism An Analysis of the Inter Allied Socialist and Labor Program on Peace, and the British Labor Party Program on Recon:irúction after the War.
By LOUIS FRAINA our Socialist activity, activity that is dynamic and prepares the Rev...

412 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 413 the final, if finest, formulation of the moderate, petit bourgeois policy that has dominated the Labor and Socialist movement; the proletarian revolution in Russia is the initial, magnificent expression in action of revolutionary Socialism, of the...

414 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 415 nationalistic purposes. subtle, insidious, counter revolutionary propaganda emanated from these organizations, even during the early stages of the Revolution, when they didn have the alibi of the pro German Bolsheviki: and so apparent and infamous...

416 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 417 same as that over Morocco the vast resources of mineral wealth, particularly iron: Alsace Lorraine produces about 80 per cent. of the iron ore in the whole German Empire. Iron is the basis of the modern industrial technology, and its monopolistic ...

418 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 419 torial problems might be put into effect, temporarily; but its demand for no economic war after the war is utterly incompatible with the requirements of Imperialism. Economic war, waged to the point where it flares up into the military struggle, i...

420 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 421 IV.
putes are vital to the existence of Capitalism. The nation is vital to Capitalism, and this acts against a supernational authority that could actually function.
The fundamental error of the Pacifist Socialist, of the Socialist who imagines tha...

422 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 423 of the sovereign right of the people; the suppression of secret diplomacy, to be replaced by the conduct of foreign policy under the control of popular Legislatures, and the publication of all treaties, which must never be in contravention of the ...

424 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 425 Imperialism, and Imperialism is necessary to the existence of Capitalism; the state is repressive and undemocratic because that is essential to Capitalism, as are all the other evils of Capitalism.
The democratization of the state depends upon the...

426 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 427 tions and action, which during the war has repeatedly repudiated the compromises of the official representatives, depends the future character of the British Labor movement. In any event, unless the bulk of the workers remain dormant, which is unt...

LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 429 428 THE CLASS STRUGGLE has been one of adapting itself to the new conditions, of working on the basis of the modification of class antagonisms, of subtly, but none the less actually, becoming part and parcel of imperialistic State Capitalism.
The epoch of Imperialism is...

430 431 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM perialism means Capitalism on the verge of collapse, Capitalism being strangled by its own contradictions, History abounds with illustrations of a system apparently supreme at the moment when internal conditions and contradictions were about to de...

432 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 433 An Open Letter To American Liberals By SANTERI NUORTEVA Representative of the Finnish Workers Republic.
prominent American liberals with whom Comrade Nuorteva, as official representative of the People Republic of Finland, has repeatedly had occasion to di...

434 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 435 Why did you go to Russia, and what do you expect to get out of it? You went there to help the Czecho Slovaks, of course!
That is what the diplomatic declarations said. To help the CzechoSlovaks to get out of Russia to fight on the western front. But aside...

436 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 437 and German reaction at that, is being encouraged and the democratic anti German masses discouraged, while in Russia the workers republic, which is anti German and democratic, is attacked, and any one is encouraged who is against the Soviets, whether he be...

438 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 439 Allies naturally suspected every approach on the part of the Bolsheviki as an effort to obtain information for the German army. But even that is no excuse at all. For more than a year the press has been shouting that Lenine and Trotzky are paid agents of ...

440 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 441 of the greatest revolution in the world, down to the deepest hell as betrayers and traitors to liberty and progress. But still more possible is another outcome. Either the Czecho Slovaks will successfully perform the work they are asked to do to day, and,...

AN OPEN LETTER 443 442 THE CLASS STRUGGLE It is true, of course, that the action of the Allies in Russia, encouraging every faction which is against the Soviets, may in the long run produce a state of complete anarchy. Enemies of the Russian Soviet Government do not hesitate to employ the most de...

444 445 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER lack the strength to perform in a year a task a thousandfold more difficult than that which you could not perform in less than ten years, and under immensely more favorable circumstances.
Where is your reputed fairness, you Americans. Where is your sense ...

446 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 447 want in Russia is the crushing of the Soviet Government as such, regardless of the fact that it is anti German and regardless of all proofs of its constructive ability. As the Soviet Government obviously is supported by the great majority of the people, y...

449 AN OPEN LETTER 448 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the situation, and, therefore, should be more able to retain your faculty of clear judgment, would advise them, or at least not encourage them in their blind class rebellion against forces that are unsurmountable?
But nothing at all is heard from you, nor...

451 AN OPEN LETTER 450 THE CLASS STRUGGLE thing to your society, even when the greatest class issues are involved. have been trying to do a work of persuasion, employing all possible tactfulness and consideration of the pecularities of the situation and of your psychology. have been doing it in t...

452 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 453 everything in their power to make it as difficult as possible for any real radical to stick to those hopes!
But if the world war is to end in an alliance of imperialistic Germany and the Allies against radicalisni and socialism all over the world, if the ...

454 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 455 Reconstruction in Russia resentative of the Finnish Workers Republic, am officially sending your Government a proposition of mediation between America and the Russian Soviets. Not that for a moment believe that such a proposition will be enterta...