Saturday, February 22, 1919 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE The Revolution in Prison to. works.
most efficient means.
Bastile another charge group Arouse JEAR ye! Hear ye! We have a cause to uphold In thc Pinta County Jail there are a number of pol and unrest prevailed in France, but they did tell us that ...

6 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Saturday, February 22, 1919 The Day of the People PON his release from the Kaiser bastile the By Eugene Debs dyed the whole earth is a new set of heels to grind doors of which were torn from their hinges into his exploited bones and a fresh and lusty vampire by the proleta...

Saturday, February 22, 1919 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship them.
of spirit.
power should working class had conisented to certain degree have not the workers even the bourgeoisie af By Bucharin we are to have a dictatorship of the workers in dealing with them as in de...

8 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Saturday, February 22, 1919 The Wrath of the Millions which we Nothing short By Barnet Braverman HROUGHOUT the world the wrath of the pro tive in its demands and welcome a similar policy from Talk emanating from conferences and reported in letariat is preparing to hurl its...

THE CL4 STANGGE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. III FEBRUARY, 1919 No. The Day of the People By EUGENE DEBS The State and Revolution By NICOLAI LENIN Problems of American Socialism By LOUIS FRAINA Karl Marx By FRANZ MEHRING Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg By LUDWIG LORE Price, 25 Cents...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLAS STRUGGLE Vol. III FEBRUARY, 1919 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 243 55th Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year CONTENTS Page Editors: EUGENE DEBS, LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. III FEB...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE DAY OF THE PEOPLE sia, and the near future will determine whether revolution has for once been really triumphant or whether sudden reaction has again won the day.
In the struggle in Russia the revolution has thus far triumphed for the reason that it has not compromised. T...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE counts for the flood of falsehood and calumny which poured upon the heads of the brave leaders and their revolutionary movement from the filthy mouthpieces of the robber regime of criminal capitalism throughout the world.
The rise of the working class is the red spectre in th...

6 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION conversely, the existence of the state is a proof of the fact that the class contradictions are irreconcilable.
selves. Of course, it is true that long extracts make a presentation somewhat heavy, and will in no way contribute to its popularity. But i...

THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 9 THE CLASS STRUGGLE site (the class opposed to it. is altogether beyond the comprehension of the petit bourgeois democracy. Their relation to the state is one of the most striking indications that our and Mensheviki are not socialists at all (we Bolsheviki have repeatedl...

THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 11.
10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE to the complex texture of social life, the differentiation of functions, etc.
Such references look scientific. they lull the philistine to intellectual repose and softly obliterate the main point: the separation of society into irreconcilably hos...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 13 The State is the Instrument of the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class For the maintenance of a special social power standing above society, there is necessary the imposition of taxes and obligations toward the state. Ruling by social power and by...

15 THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ther presentation of the views of Marx and Engels on the state as it now is.
The final summing up of his views is given by Engels in his most popular work, as follows: ment with the industrialists, or merely a friendly understanding? What is the r...

16 17 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION The Dying Out of the State and Revolution By Force Engels words concerning the dying out of the state have now such wide circulation, they are so frequently quoted, and they so sharply indicate the nature of the customary misrepresentation of Marx...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 19 tation of Marxism, acceptable only to the bourgeoisie, and founded in theory on a complete ignoring of the important circumstances and reflections expressed in the summarizing passage from Engels that is above quoted in full.
First. At the very be...

21 THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sighs does he admit the possibility that, in order to overthrow the system of the exploiters, it may be necessary, unfortunately, mind you. to use force; but every application of force demoralizes, as it were, him who uses it. And this is said in ...

23 22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Lenin Versus Wilson By Karl ISLAND (STOCKHOLM)
ty it gives no complete or revolutionary understanding whatever of the process of social evolution.
We have already said above, and will show more in detail in our further exposition, that the teaching of Marx and Engels conc...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LENIN VERSUS WILSON 25 ism and its subterranean alliances. And, just as the socialists in all countries, with the exception of small minorities, concluded a Burgfrieden, and aided capital in the universal clash, so did they also in free America.
The American socialists imagin...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 27 ous.
And in this fight, worker proletarian, you know your place.
Never before in history has the working class had an opportunity as now, but never before has its situation been so perilAnd the danger lies precisely in the fact that capital,...

28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISMI 29 American proletariat is not possessed of reserves for action, but because of the organizations of this proletariat. This is one aspect of our problems.
The American proletariat has an inspiring history of aggressive struggles. The grea Home...

30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 31 is characteristic of its general policy, of its anaemic, petty bourgeois spirit.
The accomplishments of the Bolsheviki are epochal. They have maintained for fifteen months a revolutionary dictatorship in Russia, have accomplished the first s...

32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 33 revolution was impossible in Russia, because of its economically undeveloped condition and because the proletariat was not organized into industrial unions; that the day of the Bolsheviki victory was the day of their defeat; that the Bolshev...

34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 35 Russia and Germany, concerning the Bolsheviki (although he, too, has jubilated over the Socialist Republics in Germany and Russia, in the approved style. he accepted the war for democracy (indeed, much worse, declared in April this year, tha...

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 37 36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE contagious. It is admitted that if Germany becomes definitely Bolshevik, all Europe will become Bolshevik. And then?
Inevitably, this will develop revolutionary currents in the United States, will develop other revolutions, will accelerate a...

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 39 38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE with the development in the proletariat of a more conscious and aggressive spirit.
But Capitalism cannot reconstruct itself. Capitalism cannot solve the multiplying antagonisms of a system of production that is decaying, that is becoming int...