206 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION 207 cial circumstances. The paper will probably appear twice a week, beginning with next month, and it will do good work. We have done all that is necessary to insure its distribution amongst the workers in the urban and industrial centers. To this ...

204 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION 205 It is hardly necessary to repeat the charges it contains against our Russian comrades. We are all familiar with them.
Hartmann, according to the terms of the indictment, is a strange individual with a mysterious past. He is described as a French...

202 203 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION and the very evident rebellious mood of the class conscious workers, launching an alarming warning to the powers that be to take cognizance of the fact that France is resting on a volcano far more dangerous than even Italy or England.
Some time ...

200 201 THE CLASS STRUGGLE BANKRUPTCY OR REVOLUTION of his life, to have stood by Marx side for forty years, even at the price of being completely overshadowed by Marx gigantic form. Nor did he consider it to be a belated form of satisfaction, to be permitted, after the death of his friend, to be...

198 199 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP those nations with whom there was some likelihood of immediate conflict. Oriental troubles led him to the oriental languages; he steered clear of Arabic with its four thousand roots, but Persian is a veritable child play of a language. he would be ...

196 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP 197 It is clear from the above that Engels was better fitted for a journalistic career than Marx; a real walking encyclopedia. s0 Marx once described him to a mutual friend, capable of work at any hour of the day or night, drunk or sober, swift with hi...

194 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 195 AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP cruiting and leading an army that was to revolutionize the world.
If it is true that the style is the man, we must also note their differences as writers. Each in his way was a master of language, a linguistic genius, with a mastery of many foreign...

AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP 192 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 193 Court Councillor. There is no trace of this ultimate human weakness in the friendship of Marx and Engels: the more their thoughts and labors became interwoven, the more each one of them remained a full man, complete in himself.
rather on the relati...

190 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LOGIC OF INSANITY 191 showed stiff resistance and somewhat reduced the bill that France was condemned to pay.
Have we a Bismarck? It seems doubtful. But there is no doubt that the military caste everywhere reasons in the same way, is madly charging down the same incline...

188 189 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LOGIC OF INSANITY annexations of territory and peoples, they demand mines and natural resources for capitalist exploitation. They have no thought of the future. Like primitive savages they live only for the present. After us the Deluge. deluge of blood and tears.
An...

186 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 187 The worker must be provided with the explanation of the rise and function of the League of Nations, together with an explanation of the forces affecting its disintegration. Emphasis must be laid upon the next step in the evolution of internation...

184 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 185 The ready to beat upon the head any one who shall attempt to rise to question its designs, protest its acts, or challenge its authority.
The principal one of consequence that will so question, protest and challenge, is the rising worker. It is h...

182 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 183 made by the working classes of all countries, as well as the similarity of palliative measures offered by the capitalist classes as a means of pacification.
More striking proof is presented in the attitude of hostility taken by the ruling classe...

180 181 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE units is not by any means to promulgate a new doctrine. Marx and others of his day. pointed it out so often and so clearly in expounding the theory of the class struggle, that all subsequent pointing has been more or less reiteration, although i...

179 SOCIALISM AND THE LEAGUE 178 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Theoretically the matter resolves itself into the question: is the dictatorship of the proletariat possible without violating democracy, as far as the class of exploiters is concerned?
Kautsky has expressly omitted this, theoretically the only i...

176 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EXPLOITER AND EXPLOITED 177 the sweetest fruits of existence, but who now are doomed by the mob to destruction and poverty or to common work.
Behind the exploiters stand also the great mass of the petitbourgeoisie, who as years of historical experience in every country have...

174 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EXPLOITER AND EXPLOITED 175 Kautsky is as far from Marx and Engels as earth is from heaven, as the liberal bourgeois from the proletarian revolutionist.
The pure democracy and simple democracy of which Kautsky speaks, is only another way of expressing the conception free pe...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...