372 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 373 upon the working class in all of history, rise equal to its historical task?
The difficulties that face us can be divided into two great categories, difficulties of an objective nature and difficulties of a subjective nature.
The difficulties...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 374 375 point specialists and technicians, place them in responsible positions, and simply let them bear the responsibility.
Those who are afraid of this proceedure unconsciously reveal a deep inner distrust of the Soviet rule. Those who believe that...

376 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 377 place hunters, intriguers, former failures and derelicts, who under the old regime of yesterday were without employment.
When suddenly necessity arose for the employment of tens of thousands of new specialized workers, it is no wonder that ma...

378 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 379 Why? Because if we do not go through with it, it will mean that we are beaten, and this fact would be entered in the books of history of the proletariat on the debit side. We understand as a matter of course that eventually the proletariat wi...

380 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND ORDER 381 tent represents the weak spot in our party life. It is the question of the employment of military specialists, or to speak plainly, the former officers and commanders, for the creation of the army and the administration of the army. At presen...

382 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE INVINCIBLE POWER 383 Government, that is, such an apparatus in which the head executives are persons directly elected by the Soviets of Workers Peasants and Soldiers Deputies, there can be no contradiction between the executive power and the masses of the workers, just ...

384 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE INVINCIBLE POWER 385 are acquainted with the causes that drove them to a revolt.
The lust for freedom and the conviction that the gifts of nature and the results of labor belong to the people and not to a few self crowned individuals pierced very deeply the hearts and s...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE OH! HOW GERMAN IS THIS REVOLUTION 386 387 consideration by those who mean to overcome the revolution in Russia and Germany by armies.
When a hundred million peasants in Russia are convinced that the Russian territory belong to them, then no army is strong enough to take this co...

388 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONVENTION IMPRESSIONS 389 In the four years of imperialistic mass murder blood has flown in rivers. Now every drop of that precious fluid must be preserved, with veneration, in crystal vessels. Unfettered revolutionary energy and big hearted humanity these alone are the br...

390 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 391 CONVENTION IMPRESSIONS Socialists to watch for and extirpate all efforts at counter revolution.
This use of and co operation with the police is a notable instance of socialist participation in the class struggle. But under which flag? The dozens of handsome, expensive f...

392 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONVENTION IMPRESSIONS 393 Convention, our convention is absolutely bound by the joint call. Up to the assembling of the Conference, no one had thought of forming a new party. And yet the Michigan Federation crowd made a continuous persistent effort to stampede the conventi...

394 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 395 Concerning the Jewish Question Two Reviews by KARL MARX The Jewish Question. By Bruno Bauer, Braunschweig, 1843. The Capability of present day Jews and Christians to become free. Twenty one leaflets from Switzerland. Edited by George Herwegh. Zurich and Winterthur, 1843...

396 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 397 The Christian state can be related to the Jew only in the manner of the Christian state, that is, in the manner of privilege, permitting the segregation of the Jew from the remaining subjects, but at the same time making him feel the press...

CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 399 398 THE CLASS STRUGGLE lege, and because this restraint in life reacts upon the law, compelling it to sanction the discrimination between the oppressed and an oppressing class of citizens, who, as such are presumably all free. 65. When, then, would the Jewish qu...

400 401 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION man.
its peculiarity. The criticism of this relation ceases to be theological criticism as soon as the state ceases to take a theological attitude toward religion, as soon as it assumes the attitude of the state, that is, a political attit...

402 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 403 dom of men. Just as Christ is the mediator upon whom men impose the whole burden of their religious prepossession, so the state is the mediator that is made to bear all their irreligion, all their human freedom from bias, The political exa...

404 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONCERNING THE JEWISH QUESTION 405 isting between the bourgeois and the citizen, between the member of bourgeois society and his political lion skin.
This contradiction of secular life to which the Jewish question eventually reduces itself, the relation of the political sta...

THE TWILIGHT OF LEADERSHIP 407 406 THE CLASS STRUGGLE in the form of religion does not yet profess it in the form of the state, for it still takes a religious attitude toward religion, that is, it is not the real fulfillment of the human basis of religion, because it still hinges upon immorality,...

408 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 409 The Military Program of the Prole tarian Revolution By LENIN Bourgeois history, its art and its literature tell us at every turn that the development of the social system is the work of great minds. Small wonder, then, that they seek to place the responsibility for the ...

410 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE MILITARY PROGRAM 411 perialistic powers would result in the participation of a second imperialistic power in competition with the first, and that thús every national war is changed into an imperialistic war. But this argument also is not true. It may be true, but it is ...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE MILITARY PROGRAM 412 413 dom, or, as today, upon wage slavery, the oppressing class is always armed. Not only the standing army of today, but also the militia of today, not excluding that of Switzerland, is armament of the bourgeoisie directed against the proletariat. Surel...

414 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 415 wars, not by means of kind wishes, but by overthrowing and disarming the bourgeoisie.
Whoever in view of this last war is not willing to carry out this demand, let him be good enough to refrain from uttering large words about the international revolutiona...

416 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 417 But to be sure, by this time the Social Democratic Party had already turned its misguided steps toward parliamentarism, it was fast becoming a bourgeois party, and its fear of mass action was already leading to its surrender to militarism and imperialism....

ROSA LUXEMBURG 418 419 THE CLASS STRUGGLE months later the Junius pamphlet was finished. Rosa Luxemburg did not allow her imprisonment to be a breathing spell for the enemy. They would not let her fight. With stubborn courage she replied to the power attacking her, Very well, now ll fight all the...

420 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ROSA LUXEMBURG 421 right bankruptcy, as the inner expression of a social patriotic labor party imbued with bourgeois ideals, a party that has sold the proud revolutionary birthright of the proletariat for even less than the mess of pottage demanded by Kautsky for the empty ...