PARTY DISCUSSION 113 112 THE CLASS STRUGGLE with opportunism and its result: The leaders of the party vied with each other in finding excuses for their co patriots in Europe who were voting appropriations to their various governments for carrying on the war pleading with the party membership that...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 111 Party Discussion What is the Left Wing Movement and Its Purpose?
By EDWARD LINDGREN upon the people of Germany, that the last four years of war have taught them such a bitter lesson, that the Independent and the Majority Socialist Parties will, unquestionably, be return...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 109 brought Mehring out of the Berliner Volkszeitung into the ranks of the Socialist movement.
He became a regular contributor to the scientific Socialist organ, Neue Zeit, and in this capacity he has for many years done some of his most valuable work for the Ger...

106 107 EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE Franz Mehring Ill fortune seems to dog the footsteps of the Spartacus movement in Germany. Still bleeding from the fearful wound that it received when Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg died a martyr death at the hands of the mob, it has received another blow...

104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 105 The American Government, in April 1918, through Ambassador Fletcher, threatened the Mexican Government with action should it continue to impose control upon foreign capital. This apparently was unsuccessful and armed intervention is being proposed in place of...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 103 The Capitalism of no belligerent nation with the incidental exception of Japan has profited the way American Capitalism has. Capitalism in Russia has been annihilated; Capitalism in Germany is on the verge of being annihilated; the Capitalism of Great Britain...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 101 secure better conditions, in trying to use the conditions of the war precisely as they used the conditions of peace to organize the struggle against Capitalism. Men and women in Italy are arrested for insurrectionary fighting in the streets of Milan and other...

98 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 99 the boy was himself a victim, and was in a terrible state, not because of being deprived of his liberty as such, but because that meant being deprived of his opportunity to use cocaine unless he could secure it surreptitiously in prison. Another had been convic...

96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 97 can conceive of a United States Senate, any considerable portion of which would refuse to sanction a treaty of peace, once it has been adopted by the peace plenipotentiaries of the great powers.
In France, there have been no national elections since before the ...

94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 95 EDITORIALS control, and then the government, would mean to begin building the house at the roof. We were prevented from establishing a modern uniform government under capitalist rule, because of the maintenance of our two dozen kings and princes and the slavish servility ...

92 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 93 co operation of the two parties, while not an ideal state, is the only condition that makes a Socialist government possible under the given circumstances. Every attempt to overthrow this compromise government only sets one part of the pro...

90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 91 have found support in that class which constitutes the backbone of the Revolution. No. The real kernel of the class revolution has come into irreconcilable conflict with its democratic shell. By this situation the fate of the Constituent ...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 89 THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY The Principles of Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship By LEON TROTZKY sailors, who had played such an important role in revolutionary events, were almost unanimously on our side. The Right Social Revolutionists, moreover, had to leave the So...

DETERMINISM 87 86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE same by borrowing the equipment of the other advanced nations, if not betrayed previously by the world proletariat.
This same new application of an old principle is equally true for all backward nations and colonies. They must abolish class rule as a means of ...

84 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 85 the one class system will then be more productive since it does away with a system of production based on artificial curtailment.
This interpretation sins in overlooking the fact that when the capitalist class is forced to limit production, it does not see the...

82 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 83 and gave to society a one class arrangement with relative freedom; moreover, it must be borne in mind that an industrial proletariat did not yet exist, that there was only an agricultural proletariat. Marx said as late as 1848: It is quite evident and equally ...

80 81 DETERMINISM THE CLASS STRUGGLE society which cannot last. Where the proletariat is transient, that is to say, where it disappears by a change of class relations, the class system is again made tolerable for a time instead of being abolished. The first two proletarian situations, that of the...

78 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 79 dealt with in the same manner. It does mean this, however, that whatever the possibilities of a situation may be objectively the choice of action is limited to those of the possibilities which a society is in a position to grasp according to its mental capacit...

76 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DETERMINISM 77 Economic and Menshevik Determinism By MAURICE BLUMLEIN II.
Historic Inevitability All the conditions and changes that have been referred to are reducible to two factors: the material conditions on the one hand and the mental attitude, understanding and interpr...

74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 75 KARL MARX her; her sufferings from the indescribable humiliations, tortures, and terrors, which were connected with their position, must be much greater than his, especially since she has not the possibility of seeking refuge in the realm of science, which often serves hi...

72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 73 And of course, no difficulty was raised as to the question whether the fee received by Marx from the American paper corresponded to the literary and scientific value of his contributions. capitalist newspaper calculates on market prices, and in bourgeois society...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 71 services at the disposal of the bourgeois, in order to overthrow feudal society, genius has acquired an immense power, which has always disappeared, however, as soon as genius has undertaken to act on its own authority: the rock of St. Helena has then been its a...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL MARX 69 Karl Marx ises final victory to all true genius, to Faust melancholy reflection: By FRANZ MEHRING Translator Note.
Those few who ever had a trace of it, And in their folly hid it not; Revealed their souls, their visions to the rabble: The cross, the stake, have ...

66 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LABOR PARTY 67 further. For even non Socialist workers must live, must make new and more far reaching demands in order to keep step with the constantly increasing cost of living, to offset the increasing intensity and the ravages of modern industry.
The organized capital...

64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LABOR PARTY 65 Truly, the Socialist majority leaders bear upon their souls not a little of the responsibility for the dastardly murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
The Proletarian Revolution of Germany The immediate future of Germany lies shrouded in darkness. ...