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STANGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. III MAY, 1919 No. Articles by: Lenin Gorky Mehring Bukharin Rappaport (Paris)
August Strindberg Katayama Price, etc.
Also FACSIMILES OF SOVIET CIRCULARS issued to Foreign Soldiers on Russian Soil Price, 25 Cents SOCIALIST PUBLICATION SOCIE...

THE CLAS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. III MAY, 1919 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 243 55 th Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 254 a Copy; 50 a Year Editors: EUGENE DEBS, LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. III MAY, 1919 No. The Fi...

130 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN THE SOVIET 131 tions the world over are striving for the six hour day, for the fiveday week. Universal suffrage is on the eve of its realization in every capitalist country: for the revolutionary proletariat it has been superceded by new political ideal...

133 CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN THE SOVIET 132 THE CLASS STRUGGLE spirits, angels, saints, etc. in short religion. The masses of the people have become accustomed to believe in these things, and yet, if we approach these beliefs sensibly, and come to understand where religion comes from, and why religio...

134 135 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN THE SOVIET state. These are the so called officiating angels and archangels. the cherubim, the seraphim, the angels of the third and various other degrees. The very word chin (degree) reminds us of chinovnik (office holder, bureaucrat. and both word...

136 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 137 CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN THE SOVIET insolvency. But the fact is that the bourgeois State wholeheartedly places all of its means at the disposition of its church hierarchy, which in turn with ardent zeal supports the bourgeois power. Under the Czar the Russian priests not on...

138 139 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WHAT THE UNDER CLASS ANSWERS that is the method of capitalism. Culture for all, spiritual deliverance from the yoke of capital that is the watchword of the party of the working class, the Communist Party.
manner there was created a monopoly of education. The obtaining o...

140 141 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WHAT THE UNDER CLASS ANSWERS continue blossoming undisturbed and multiplying from year to year, and if you pull them up by the roots, they always succeed in dropping a seed somewhere, before you throw them into the fire. So, please, look at my specimens! If others will ...

142 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WHAT THE UNDER CLASS ANSWERS 143 ANSWER I have answered this Phrase exhaustively in the periodical, Tiden (The Times. No. 154, which appeared 1884, and until you make an exhaustive reply to my answer, shall not answer again. shall merely point out that to be of value a refo...

145 144 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ANSWER 11 Thank you, sir, thank you, for having brought up that phrase also, for it is perhaps the most important phrase of all. We needn quarrel, said the cock in the horse stall. No, all you want is to be left at peace, beati possidentes, lucky to have had first pick!...

146 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TRUTH ABOUT INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA 147 for help. But let not the governments of England and France forget that foul deeds will rise, though all the world o erwhelm them to men eyes. Those who suppress the truth create forces that bring the truth into the light of day, but b...

148 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TRUTH ABOUT INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA 149 slavery. The Russian workers and peasants therefore could no longer admit the principle that they should pay tribute to foreign bankers for the doubtful honor of serving as their cannon fodder. So the repudiation of the debts of Czaris...

150 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TRUTH ABOUT INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA 151 Russian peasants and workers that deserted the Allies, but the Allies, yes, and fear the working classes in the Allied countries, who deserted the Russian peasants and workers in the hour of their distress.
Now, what was the policy of ...

152 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TRUTH ABOUT INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA 153 tary agents in Russia and the Czecho Slovak National Council. This Council had taken under its control the Czecho Slovak prisoners and deserters from the Austrian army and had formed them into a separate legion to fight against Austria...

154 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 155 Berne Post mortem Conference By LUDWIG LORE European Imperial butchers? The Soviet Government of Russia asked peace and the governments of England and France are trying to give it a sword: it asked for help in its work of social reconstruction and it has been given the ...

156 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BERNE POST MORTEM CONFERENCE 157 the established order and has taken the power out of the hands of the capitalist class. In every civilized nation revolution is hanging by a hair over the heads of a trembling capitalist class. And these gentlemen come together, placidly, wi...

158 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BERNEGA POST MORTEM CONFERENCE 159 with a few courteous generalities, the statement of the German majority group, and leaving it to future Congresses to render a decision. The words with which Wels, the spokesman of the German majority Socialists, closed the discussion were...

BERNE POST MORTEM CONFERENCE 161 160 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Later when the question of prisoners of war was under discussion, and the German majority delegates were bitter in their denunciation of the Allied governments for refusing to liberate German prisoners of war, thus provoking the French deleg...

162 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RUSSIAN TALE 163 ment have convinced them of the foolhardiness of committing themselves to an anti Bolshevik declaration before a proletariat that is looking more and more to the Russian republic for inspiration. This accounts for the minimum of time allotted to the discuss...

164 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPAN AND CHINA 165 They turn half a hundred houses inside out, beat to death a few of the Hebrew nation, and, having tired of their labors, feel no further desire for reforms, and order has triumphed!
In addition to the well born officials, the native population, and the J...

JAPAN AND CHINA 167 166 THE CLASS STRUGGLE China is a large country with an enormous population. Modern China is governed by a comparatively small class of the population, by the educated men of the nation, altogether about five million in number, comprising approximately one and onequarter per c...

168 169 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPAN AND CHINA the Chinese have realized the value of their national resources, they will become a powerful influence among nations.
Most nearly related to the Chinese are the Japanese. Racially these two nationalities have so much in common that either can be easily a...

170 171 THE CLASS STRUGGLE JAPAN AND CHINA Japonlic (the eastern devil. Furthermore, it loosened the stranglehold that Germany held upon China. Hitherto the Chinese had felt that their army, drilled and commanded by German experts, was invincible. The ease with which the Japanese forces advanced ...

172 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EXPLOITER AND EXPLOITED 173 pound of meat is a pound of meat the well known standpoint of Shakespeare Shylock.
ably in a new Socialist world. The wars of the past have shown that their peoples are not enemies, but friends. Already the Soviets of Russia are extending the han...