18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 19 This brings us to a consideration of the question of power generally, as a problem in the elaboration of proper terms of peace. The problem, which is one of fundamental importance, is this: peace that would seriously impair Germany military power ...

SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 21 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE war cannot be avoided. And Germany is not the only one that is preparing for it. The preparedness epidemic rages all over the world. The Socialists of most countries are affected by it. Conscription is made permanent in the United States, Great Br...

22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 23 that is the basis of the human nature theory of war. Nor is there any possibility of German nature undergoing any change in the near future at least not according to the propounders of the German nature theory of war. Nor is there any reasonable e...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 25 nevertheless a great mistake to identify the two without further ado. For the purposes of the two are essentially different. The purposes of German Militarism under Bismarck were, primarily, to create and preserve German Unity under Prussian hegem...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 27 policy, encouraging France in the acquisition of colonies, while keeping Germany out of colonial adventures.
It is now commonly said that Germany has been preparing for the present war for forty four years, that is, since the conclusion of the Fra...

SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 29 28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE may, therefore, be taken for granted that we cannot have peace, at least not a lasting peace, until these demands are somehow satisfied.
real navy, that is, a navy which means sea power, must have points of support commensurate to its size, if its...

30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 31 of change by growth; and any arrangement which will leave change possible will not be secure either from Germany point of view or from that of her opponents. Germany surely will not consent to any peace that will not secure to her at least all tha...

SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 33 32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Nothing less will do. And the thing must be adopted in its entirety, or not at all. At least as far as disarmament is concerned. And it must be done now, at the end of this war, if there is to be no next one.
The practical man, particularly of the...

SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 35 34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the other, or of diplomatic negotiations intended to give each side a breathing spell so as to recuperate for a resumption of the struggle.
No such difficulties attend complete disarmament. The peaceful nations cannot possibly be the losers by the...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 37 to have a navy the seas being considered international domain along with the undeveloped territories. These are matters of detail, however. Important in themselves, but not bearing directly on our problem of securing permanent peace. This will be ...

38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST TERMS OF PEACE 39 In explanation of Germany course during the Austro Serbian crisis which led to the present war, the German Emperor stated that the Serbian nationalist propaganda threatened to so weaken the Austrian Empire (militarily) that she would have been of ...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 41 40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Russian Revolution and its Problems By MORRIS KOLCHIN The failure of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and of the revolutionary movement was brought about by a combination of forces. The bourgeoisie, hoping to obtain a home market and the freedom t...

42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 43 and the conflict remained unsettled, the needs unsatisfied. To be sure, great changes were made, important reforms introduced.
The dissolution of the peasant communities, the division of community lands and the sale of a great number of nobility est...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 45 True, this opposition of the bourgeoisie was rather of a harmless nature, for it was also in opposition to any non parliameniary steps, but it isolated the autocracy completely. It gave aid and comfort to the working class who remained as revolution...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 47 46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE All these days the Duma Committee was irresolute, for the members of the committee realized that the council was the real power, that the council and not the committee had the masses behind it. True, the committee did appoint commissions to look aft...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 49 coalition cabinet as their victory, and in some socialist quarters of the United States it was considered a victory for socialism.
It was of course neither of the two, it was a hard blow to socialism, to the socialist movement of the world. True, on...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 51 ess of differentiation of social groups and economic interests.
Thus ended the spring days of the revolution. Not only the bourgeoisie and large land owners but also the well to do peasants and later a part of the Cossacks, who were well provided wi...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 53 52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE prisoned political agitators, suppressed free speech and free press.
Whether we agree with the action of the council or not, the circumstances that led to these acts must be understood. The council acted as it did to save the revolution.
The revolut...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 55 war problem will therefore be solved (if it can be solved at all without the co operation of the revolutionary proletariat of the other warring nations) on the basis of the no annexations, no indemnities formula. True, the bourgeoisie is imperialist...

56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 57 greatest economic change made by the Russian revolution. Other economic changes, the entire abolition of private property, the establishment of the co operative commonwealth will come with the next revolution. Labor and Democracy By LOUIS FRAINA The deeds of the governmen...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABOR AND DEMOCRACY 59 of Socialism and unionism intermingled. And to cap the climax of absurdity, a resolution demanding for small nationalities the right to live their own lives on their own soil and to develop their own culture concluded with a declaration in favor of a Z...

LABOR AND DEMOCRACY 61 60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE formerly bitter critics of the of acquiesced in every single reactionary action. The disgusting level to which these renegades stooped may be seen in the pledge which they and every other delegate had to sign. The undersigned hereby affirm that it is t...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 63 accept revolutionary action, and the conservatism of which, moreover, is strengthened by the party bureaucrats dominant in its management.
The People Council is being used by the Socialist Party officials to make votes for the party. This may succeed, temporarily, ...

J ACCUSE 65 64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE do not attribute this to the ill will of individuals. Individuals have made mistakes. The great tragedy lay in the labor movement itself, lay in the supremacy that the bureaucratic machine of this labor movement has won over the future aims and interests of the p...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 67 solutism has destroyed all parliamentary means, also by force to be conducted by the masses. Today, as ever, maintain that mass action must be, and is, decisive, and that my act has been nothing but a modest individual act, not to take the place of mass action, not...