THE CLAJ STRUGGLE Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 431 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editor. LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. II DECEMBER, 1918 No.
45 A Letter to American Workingmen By LENIN.
Moscow, Augu...

522 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 523 tive forces of organized human labor, by utilizing machines and all the wonders of technique America has taken the first place among free and civilized nations. But at the same time America, like a few other nations, has become characte...

524 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 525 England and Germany have not hesitated to ruin a whole of row of nations, from Belgium and Servia to Palestine and Mesopotamia. Shall we then hesitate to act in the name of the liberation of the workers of the world from the yoke of cap...

526 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 527 Nevski Prospect. He is no revolutionist who would have the revolution of the proletariat only under the condition that it proceed smoothly and in an orderly manner, that guarantees against defeat be given beforehand, that the revolution...

528 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 529 that he knows only one war that is sanctified and justified from the standpoint of the proletariat: the war against the capitalist class, the war for the liberation of mankind from wage slavery. am not surprised that this fearless man w...

530 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 531 because they seem so simple and unpretentious, because they take place in the everyday life of the factory districts or in se cluded villages, because they are the deeds of people who are not in the habit of proclaiming their every succ...

532 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMEN 533 magic, complete in every detail, as Minerva sprang from Jupiter head.
While the old bourgeoisie democratic constitutions, for instance, proclaimed formal equality and the right of free assemblage, the constitution of the Soviet Republic...

534 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 535 Bridging the Gap of State Socialism By WILLIAM FIELDING There has been discussion without end on the question of State Socialism or State Capitalism, which is a more accurate term for what the modus operandi implies and its relation to the achievement o...

536 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 537 Germany may be cited as the highest development of State Control with, of course, reservations, the nearest approach to State Socialism, including many of the evils that would go with an efficiently organized society of that form.
There is in Germany th...

538 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 539 tice to keep the millions of soldiers supplied with food and deathdealing implements, and to furnish the other millions of noncombatants behind the lines with the necessities that the insatiable monster of modern war keeps calling for and must have.
The...

540 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BRIDGING THE GAP 541 individualist system of capitalist production and the social and political subordination of the toiling masses. In national affairs the party broad aim is to secure for the producers by hand or brain the full fruits of their industry, and the most equit...

542 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 543 In British Captivity By LEON TROTZKY. consider it at this time a matter of political necessity to publish the documents bearing upon my imprisonment by the British for the period of one month. The bourgeois pressthe same press which has been spreadi...

545 IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 544 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the circumstances of this arrest and the conditions of our confinement, see the letter addressed to the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, printed herein below. This letter wrote on a Danish steamer after my release from British captivity, intend...

546 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 547 To the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dear Sir: jority of the German social democracy. Having been published in Zurich at the beginning of the War, this pamphlet was smuggled by Swiss Socialists into Germany and there it was spread by the same social...

548 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 549 lice. But this did not prevent the investigating officers McCann and Westwood from gathering information about us among other passengers, for instance, from Mr. Fundaminsky, these officers insisting at the same time that was a terrible socialist. Th...

550 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 551 emigrants, rebels against legal authorities and therefore a camp for war prisoners was the most natural place for us to live in.
On April 5th we made an attempt to wire to the Russian government. Our telegrams were passed. During the entire period o...

IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 553 552 THE CLASS STRUGGLE into his office and, with his usual Anglo African style, told him, that we were to be put on a Danish steamer to be sent to Russia. From this you will see, Mr. Minister, how our allies liberated us after a month confinement.
If England seized us as ...

554 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BRITISH CAPTIVITY 555 Handing out to us with one hand the papers entitling us to a safe conduct to Russia and demonstrating thereby its loyalty towards the amnesty which to them appeared so unreliable, the consulate could with its other hand furnish its secret informatio...

A FINNISH DOCUMENT 557 556 THE CLASS STRUGGLE also to be issued in pamphlet form; we therefore limit ourselves here to presenting only its main points. Finnish Document By HÖGLUND (Stockholm)
The Finnish Social Democrats recently held a congress at Moscow, in which the program and guiding lines o...

558 THE CLASS STRUGGLE FINNISH DOCUMENT 559 finally caused the Bolshevik Government to recognize. Finland bourgeoisie sold this independence to German Imperialism at the price of the blood of the Finnish proletariat, but by this act it tore out social patriotism by the roots from the minds of the...

560 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 561 The Awakening of Austria old song which we used to sing in the 90 s, beginning with the words: The state is in danger, it never was anywhere else, and ending with the line: To with all the states; the people will survive anyway. To day that is p...

562 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 563 a mere question of foreign policy. For to Austria foreign policy has become a question of internal policy, and the internal policy is to a very considerable degree external. They are no longer separable quantities. Austria as it is constituted t...

564 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 565 blood; awful and immeasurable is the guilt that taints those who wrote the Serbian note, which was hailed as a salvation.
At last! a real word well spoken, it was said. And not only by Christian Conservative groups, but by nearly all the liberal...

566 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 567 have injured us severely, and we must do penance (and who knows how much longer) by blood and hunger, for the dream that we can run the whole earth.
tive work. That unfortunately, has been a great mistake in German political policy, that has cau...

568 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 569 lated these conditions very carefully, we perhaps for our part would go somewhat further, but as we wish that the parliament and the other parties should join us, we only included what we believed that every deputy in this house could vote for w...