570 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA 571 And if those other gentlemen who have been doing such good business, think that what they receive from Austria, is exactly proportionate to the pressure they transmit and exert downward, for my part think that one people cannot live from the rul...

572 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 573 Letter to the Polish Socialists By KARL MARX, FRIEDRICH ENGELS, Paul LAFARGUE, LESSNER Translated from the Polish by Dr. John Kallen Most of them have died, rotted, vanished, dropped out of sight, but Tisza survives. We wish to state this emphatically, even if Count Bur...

574 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER TO THE POLISH SOCIALISTS 575 ciation. The Polish uprising of 1863, giving cause for a common protest of English and French workers against the perfidious international actions of their governments, caused the formation of the International which arose with the co ope...

576 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 577 New Germany By LUDWIG LORE.
Suddenly as the war began it has ended. And the military rulers of Germany, whose insane lust for power thrust a world that was tottering on the brink of war for years into its horrible maelstrom, have fled from the wrath of their...

578 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 579 Russian land and Russian resources. The Russian people had won the very soul of the German nation.
To day the political fortunes of the German nation lie completely in the hands of the Social Democratic movement. The capitalist system of production in German...

580 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 581 country. On the 9th the Emperor fled from German soil and Prince Maximilian was proclaimed Regent. On Monday, the 11th, Scheidemann and Ebert demanded his resignation in the name of the German people, and Ebert was proclaimed Chancellor of the German Sociali...

582 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 583 one, then numerous Socialists to their city councils. In the national, state and municipal legislative assemblages they forced the adoption of social legislation, and the German protective factory legislation, German old age pension laws, unemployment laws a...

584 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 585 whole world was headed in the wrong direction, not only in the question of militarisin and war, but in its whole fundamental conception of the class struggle. They proclaimed the death of the second International, and, together with radical Socialists of oth...

586 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 587 deposits and of their readiness to meet all obligations incurred by the monarchy in the shape of war loans. They believe that the time is ripe for a social revolution in Germany, but desire that it be introduced gradually, without skipping what they believe ...

588 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 589 hold upon the people of Russia to the fact that it stands ready, at all times, to carry out their demands. In Germany it is possible that the same conditions may bring about exactly the opposite effect. The soldiers and the working class, according to all in...

590 THE CLASS STRUGGLE NEW GERMANY 591 war may have disturbed but has not broken, is a formidable enemy, an enemy that will fight without mercy and without quarter, once it feels that it has again gained a foothold in the country.
feels itself at the mercy of the proletariat, just as the class co...

592 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE TORRENT OF THE REVOLUTION 593 In the Torrent of the Revolution By MAXIM GORKI.
December, 1917.
Christmas! We are living in a storm of the darkest passions.
The past has opened wide its gaping jaws and reveals mankind in all its horrible disfigurement. Greed, hatred a...

594 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE TORRENT OF THE REVOLUTION 595 Let us believe in ourselves, let us be stubborn and unyielding in our battles. Everything is in our power, and in all creation there is no law but our reason and our will.
You who feel in the storm of events; you whose hearts are torn by...

596 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE TORRENT OF THE REVOLUTION 599 Letters from Women The most interesting letters that receive come from women.
These letters, concerned with the impressions of the stormy present, are filled with anguish, resentment and wrath, but they are not apathetic like those of me...

598 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE TORRENT OF THE REVOLUTION 599 beautiful things, she, the source of Life and Poetry, cries, Kill!
Hang! Shoot!
We are here face to face with a fearful and gloomy contradiction, that may well destroy the aureole with which History has surrounded woman. Can it be that w...

600 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPANESE INTERPRETATION 601 Japanese Interpretation of the Recent Food Riots By SEN KATAYAMA Our brief sketch of the popular movement in Japan, its mobs and its riots, that appeared in the Sept. Oct. issue of the Class Struggle under the title of Armed Peace on the Pacific,...

602 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPANESE INTERPRETATION 603 in the mines, and many millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed, before the wage increase demanded by the workers was granted. In Kobe the populace burnt down stores, offices, and even the residences of the wealthy rice speculators. T...

604 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPANESE INTERPRETATION 605 in Japan there is no government for the non propertied classes. Certainly the rice riots, if they have any meaning at all, have proven that the government has failed to give to the people adequate protection, that they have risen in arms therefor...

606 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 607 Economic and Menshevik Determinism By MAURICE BLUMLEIN known socialists were kept in confinement in their own homes during the progress of the riots by their supporters, as it was well known that the government was prepared to arrest them on the slightest pretext.
In Os...

608 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 609 inevitable and economically determined and pre determined. We shall have to arrive at a clear understanding of exactly what is fore ordained by the Class Struggle, by historic inevitability and economic determinism.
CLASS RELATIONS R...

610 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 611 slavery. In other words, changes during this period of history were made by negative action, by getting rid of an oppressive condition. Where this was accomplished by a new class relation, the new system served the desired purpose, b...

612 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 613 system. This merely proved conclusively that the preservation of ownership of social property by the individual is incompatible with a one class system, no matter how plausible the scheme might appear on the surface.
Instead of being...

614 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ECONOMIC AND MENSHEVIK DETERMINATION 615 be a very deceptive sort of liberty. Both chattel slavery and Feudalism recognized the principle that the world owes a man a living; not that it was ever formulated in so many words, but it was inherent in the nature of the instituti...

616 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 617 EDITORIALS The Bubble Has Burst ing to send it elsewhere to seek its freedom, if it is not to remain at home in privation and slavery. The mass will free itself at home, it will at last meet the problem where it originated, it will solve the antagonism between owning an...

618 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 619 an opinion on the subject, and that he would bow gracefully to any decision that the Bourbon gentlemen from the South and the pliant Republican tools of the big interests in the East and West might reach.
So in a single speech, Wilson shattered the house of c...