PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 41 40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE develop the conception and practice of political strikes, to make it realize that its action should centre in the large plants, that when it wants to act, its action should develop out of the mill, mine and factory. Our political action shou...

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 43 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE tarian. The British Labor Party policy is a petty bourgeois policy, a counter revolutionary policy, as has been clearly apparent from its unity with imperialistic Capitalism in the British Cabinet, its declaration that the war was a war of d...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 45 The way to wage war upon a Labor Party, should it eventuate, is not to promise more reforms than the Labor Party, is not to plead and placate, but to develop the revolutionary consciousness of the proletariat, to awaken to action the great, ...

46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 47 ization for the revolutionary conquest of the party by the party! The American Socialist Party needs a definite, organized, vocal left wing, a unified expression of revolutionary Socialism in theory and practice. Thus alone shall we prepare ...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 49 the history of this movement within the German party, and the position taken by its leaders, not only during the war but for two decades in the past, they would be forced to admit that Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht did not act madly...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 51 military service, against war. He was among the first to recognize that militarism in Germany was more than the tool of the capitalist class, that it was becoming the spirit that dominated and controlled the very destinies of the nation....

52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 53 German, in Polish as in French, and was well known in most countries of Europe as a fascinating and thoroughly learned speaker.
In Poland she became a member of the Polish SocialDemocratic Party, the strictly Socialist, anti national win...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 55 the abolition of social wrongs in the anarchistic sense, it is of the conviction that the proletariat must be prepared to use its whole power for the achievement of political equality. The political mass strike can be succesful only with...

56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 57 to take the offensive, that the masses may follow us with full confidence in our powers.
In this connection, and because both Rosa Luxemburg and Liebknecht, and in fact all supporters of a more general adoption of mass action in Germany,...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 59 In the second year of the war Liebknecht was sent to the front as a non combatant soldier, where he was shortly afterward seriously hurt by a falling tree trunk. In March of the same year Rosa Luxemburg was sentenced to a year in prison ...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 61 all ranks came out with counter revolutionary sentiments and proposals under the spiritual protection of the government that retained them in power in spite of all protests, showed the hopelessness of such an alliance, and finally led th...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 63 Bolschewismus, der Militarismus der Faulenzer first days of the revolution, had driven everything before it.
The Majority Socialists left nothing untried to fan this resentment into an open flame. Not only did the government make use of ...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LABOR PARTY 65 Truly, the Socialist majority leaders bear upon their souls not a little of the responsibility for the dastardly murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
The Proletarian Revolution of Germany The immediate future of Germany lies shrouded in darkness. ...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LABOR PARTY 67 further. For even non Socialist workers must live, must make new and more far reaching demands in order to keep step with the constantly increasing cost of living, to offset the increasing intensity and the ravages of modern industry.
The organized capital...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 69 Karl Marx ises final victory to all true genius, to Faust melancholy reflection: By FRANZ MEHRING Translator Note.
Those few who ever had a trace of it, And in their folly hid it not; Revealed their souls, their visions to the rabble: The cross, the stake, have ...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 71 services at the disposal of the bourgeois, in order to overthrow feudal society, genius has acquired an immense power, which has always disappeared, however, as soon as genius has undertaken to act on its own authority: the rock of St. Helena has then been its a...

72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 73 And of course, no difficulty was raised as to the question whether the fee received by Marx from the American paper corresponded to the literary and scientific value of his contributions. capitalist newspaper calculates on market prices, and in bourgeois society...

74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 75 KARL MARX her; her sufferings from the indescribable humiliations, tortures, and terrors, which were connected with their position, must be much greater than his, especially since she has not the possibility of seeking refuge in the realm of science, which often serves hi...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 77 Economic and Menshevik Determinism By MAURICE BLUMLEIN II.
Historic Inevitability All the conditions and changes that have been referred to are reducible to two factors: the material conditions on the one hand and the mental attitude, understanding and interpr...

78 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 79 dealt with in the same manner. It does mean this, however, that whatever the possibilities of a situation may be objectively the choice of action is limited to those of the possibilities which a society is in a position to grasp according to its mental capacit...

80 81 DETERMINISM THE CLASS STRUGGLE society which cannot last. Where the proletariat is transient, that is to say, where it disappears by a change of class relations, the class system is again made tolerable for a time instead of being abolished. The first two proletarian situations, that of the...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 83 and gave to society a one class arrangement with relative freedom; moreover, it must be borne in mind that an industrial proletariat did not yet exist, that there was only an agricultural proletariat. Marx said as late as 1848: It is quite evident and equally ...

84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 85 the one class system will then be more productive since it does away with a system of production based on artificial curtailment.
This interpretation sins in overlooking the fact that when the capitalist class is forced to limit production, it does not see the...

DETERMINISM 87 86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE same by borrowing the equipment of the other advanced nations, if not betrayed previously by the world proletariat.
This same new application of an old principle is equally true for all backward nations and colonies. They must abolish class rule as a means of ...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 89 THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY The Principles of Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship By LEON TROTZKY sailors, who had played such an important role in revolutionary events, were almost unanimously on our side. The Right Social Revolutionists, moreover, had to leave the So...