68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 69 Now will tell you what it was that particularly worked upon me. During the investigation spoke openly and at some length. Here may confine my remarks to things that are already proven, occurrences that may be read in the papers, that have become notorious. will spe...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 71 human being is something inhuman, but was convinced that we are living in a barbaric age, that we are forced to kill. The war is, to me, inhuman, as is also revolution, for in it too, human lives are sacrificed. For we hate murder and violent death. It is our moral...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF CAPITALISM 73 72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Recent Development of Capitalism in Japan By KATAYAMA Japan is a snug home of modern capitalism. The government of Japan has been very eager to make it so. It helped capitalism to grow, politically and financially, in every possible manne...

B 74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF CAPITALISM 75 car tickets bought singly. If, however, they are bought 100 at a time, an expenditure out of the question for the poor, there is a tax of but sen (2720) on the whole. And in the government railroad, discrimination in favor of the rich i...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF CAPITALISM 77 then the government and its capitalists have decided to raise the sugar supply for the entire country in Formosa, and proceeded to establish sugar companies under very high protection. In the early stage of the industry the government sup...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF CAPITALISM 779 78 THE CLASS STRUGGLE In the 90 the former had become comparatively prosperous.
To day there is no labor organization by means of which the workers may resist the brutal exploitation of their master class.
Obviously legal protection and favoritism from the go...

80 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF CAPITALISM 81 About five years ago the government increased the salaries of all civil officials and military officers by 25 per cent. and a new increase is again being contemplated. Last year the pensions paid out to the members of this class amounted ...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 83 La Vie des Mots and willfully permits the capitalist class to exploit working girls and children heartlessly and cruelly. want to see the autocratic imperialism destroyed, once and for all time, in Japan, as in Germany, for the liberation of the unhappy toiling millions. ...

OUR OLD MASTERS 85 84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Our Old Masters and Their Modern Substitutes By FRANZ MEHRING, masses an understanding of those terms that will make them active agents for good in the liberalization of the world. am a simple man and always fall for a plausible argument. was enchanted wit...

86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OLD MASTERS 87 considers study and research a waste of time has disposed of any further relations with Marx and his kind.
But Scheidemann is absolutely consistent in the position he has taken. The practical system of politics really has nothing in common with our Old Mas...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OLD MASTERS 89 After the revolution of 1848 had failed to create a united Germany the German government tried to utilize the growing need of economic unity, for dynastic purposes, to create, not a united Germany, but as the then King William put it, an elongated Prussia....

90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OLD MASTERS 91 Notwithstanding the severity with which Marx and Engers condemned the annexation of Alsace Lorraine, they never supported the French agitation for revenge, after the annexation had become an accomplished fact. Always and ever, they were guided by the princ...

OUR OLD MASTERS 92 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 93 war in which Russians and Frenchmen invaded Germany would be to the latter a life and death struggle, in which its national existence could be assured only by the application of the most revolutionary measures. The present government will surely not open u...

94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 95 ple and of weakening this will in the masses of the people in the Allied countries.
But such a policy requires great diplomatic skill. For it is no easy matter to appear to be reasonable without actually committing one self to being reasonable and the Germ...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 97 96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the German Government job all the easier, and served to increase the moral effect of its manoeuvre.
The remarkable success of that manoeuvre encouraged the German Government to try again. This time the chosen instrument was the Catholic Party. Dr. Spahn, t...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 99 98 THE CLASS STRUGGLE of a doubt the incomparable stupidity of our ruling powers and purveyors of public opinion. For weeks the Convention was heralded as a dark conspiracy of German agents, dangerous traitors, etc. etc. When the Convention finally met, it turned out to be as t...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 101 Meyer London In the last election the Twelfth Congressional District sent Meyer London for the second time to the House of Representatives. But America working class is without a representative in Congress.
Rarely is the representative of a revolutionary...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 103 The attitude of American courts of justice toward labor in the past has by no means justified undue optimism. If one can speak of class justice anywhere it is here in America, where its operations have been so shameless that even Samuel Gompers has been ...

104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 105 States shall be engaged in war it shall be unlawful for any person or persons in the presence or hearing of others to utter any disloyal, threatening, profane, violent, scurrilous, contemptuous, slurring, abusive, or seditious language about the Governme...

106 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 107 case.
And then the Crown Prince spoke. And he said: My father hath ichastised you with whips, but will chastise you with scorpions. He gave you Bethmann Hollweg; but will give you Michaelis.
And the German people accepted Michaelis from the hands of the ...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DISCUSSION 109 Discussion Boudin Policy in Peace and War More deliberately than in his Socialism and War, Boudin accentuates his stand on war in a recent article, Socialist Policy in Peace and War, in the second issue of the Class Struggle. It is worth while to analyze his ...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DISCUSSION 111 machinations of discipline, censorship, and the entire power of militarism, and then evidently a small group of clever leaders sits watching all the time to see whether the ruling class does not go too far, and if it does, calls the workers back from the tren...

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THE CLAS STRUGGE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. NOVEMBER DECEMBER, 1917 No. Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 115 Worth St. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editors: LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORE CONTENTS Vol. NOVEMBER DECEMBER,...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRIAL by the use of violence and various other illegal means. On this question of conspiracy and violence, Robert Bruere, who is engaged in an investigation of the subject, said in the New York Evening Post of November 14. As write, have been in Arizona only four weeks, b...