4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRIAL with the operations for the success of the military and naval forces of the United States, and the charge is based directly and simply on these men membership in the that they have received cards of membership, voted in meetings, paid dues and distributed literature...

6 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PACIFISM IN THE SERVICE OF IMPERIALISM Pacifism in the Service of Imperialism By LEON TROTZKY Petrograd, June 30 (17. 1917.
There have never been so many pacifists as at this moment, when people are slaying each other on all the great highways of our planet. Each epoch has no...

8 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PACIFISM IN THE SERVICE OF IMPERIALISM nomic roots as the antagonisms between the classes. And if we admit the possibility of a progressive blunting of the edge of the class struggle, it requires but a single further step to accept a gradual softening and regulating of intern...

10 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PACIFISM IN THE SERVICE OF IMPERIALISM 11 led inexorably to a catastrophic militarization of the United States at a single stroke.
It was impossible for this thing to go on without some resistance from the masses of the people. To overcome their unorganized dissatisfaction a...

12 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PACIFISM IN THE SERVICE OF IMPERIALISM 13 said to themselves: If our government, with such an outspoken pacifist as Wilson at the head, declares war, and if even Bryan supports the government in this war, this war must be an unavoidable and righteous war.
It is now evident w...

15 14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Passing of the Nation By BOUDIN And at the very moment when Bakhmetieff stood hat in hand, a humiliating speech passing over his lips, in the presence of the representatives of capitalism, Tseretelli and Kerensky were explaining to the revolutionary democracy how impo...

17 THE PASSING OF THE NATION 16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE which the idea of nationalism has upon the civilized world. The outbreak of the Great War was accompanied by a veritable flood of nationalistic literature. The cry of Teuton versus Slav resounded from one end of the earth to the other at least in...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 19 its own product as directly answers its needs, and exchanging the balance with similar producing organizations for such useful articles as it does not itself produce. And this view is undoubtedly justified by the historic origins of the modern na...

20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 21 of this new development was the Reformation. Contrary to the assurances of our school histories and similar sources of information, the Reformation was least of all a religious movement. In so far as it did not directly aim at economic results, i...

23 THE PASSING OF THE NATION 22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE In order that we may be able to judge fairly of the tendencies of recent and contemporaneous thought, we must remind ourselves of the ideal political state of the nationalistic mode of thought, which is: Every Nation one State, and every State on...

24 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 25 In this connection, it is well to remember that Dr. Naumann is neither a militarist nor an imperialist in the ordinary sense of the word. On the contrary, he is a democrat, and there are people who think he is almost a Socialist. It must also be ...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 27 Why should German Bohemians or Tzechs have defended the Ridge of the Vosges. There must have been some serious interests that made these people fight these to them, at any rate non national fights; and these serious interests can be relied upon t...

THE PASSING OF THE NATION 29 28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE We seem to have reached this, the final stage in the evolution towards internationalism, at least in the form of supernationalism.
In this connection, another book deserves our attention a book written about the same time as Naumann Middle Europe...

30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 31 its independent judiciary, and yoke itself to a conglomeration of foreign nationalities, of different race and tongue, and with different history and traditions, was simply preposterous.
But Prof. Usher is not shocked at the thought of Pan Americ...

32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 33 country; and nearly any part of the United States has more regular contact with New York or Chicago than with any other part of North America. Isolation is more a matter of time than of space, and common interests are due to the ease of transport...

35 34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Russian Revolution By KARL KAUTSKY that a union between the thirteen states was impossible, and that each sovereign state ought to go it alone. There were also those who, like our own Dr. Naumann, realized that it was impossible for each state to go it alone, but who ...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 37 It was this fear of the masses that led the representatives of French nobility on that famous 4th of August, 1789, to voluntarily sacrifice their feudal rights.
In this stage, coalition governments, with representatives of the working class, may be ...

38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 39 advantage of their victory. Nor has the revolution given to Russia any war measure that would place it at an advantage over its opponents.
And there is still another difference. The significance of the French revolution was tremendous. It was the si...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 41 Our Obedient Congress By LUDWIG LORE The war session of the Sixty fifth Congress deserves the good rating it received from the President down to the cheapest politician. For never before did an American parliament so obediently swallow so many bitter...

OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 43 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE appropriation of 3, 281, 094, 541. 60 for Army and Navy expenditures arising out of the war. But this insignificant sum of more than three and a quarter billion dollars was a comparatively small item, for the same law granted to the President immense...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 45 everything in its power and a little more to make autocracy and reaction the dominant factor in this country. It talked about the liberties that must be preserved and then acted in exactly the opposite direction. It is a remarkable fact, indeed, that...

OUR OBEDIENT CONGRESS 47 46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Food Bill is, essentially, a measure that would deserve the undivided support of Congress as an act giving the President and the Food Administration the greatest possible latitude in the vigorous prosecution of that group of American profiteers w...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 49 Political Parties in Russia By LENIN. Aids to an understanding of the proposed platform drawn up by Lenin for discussion at Bolshevik meetings. The printing of the proposed platform has thus far been held up only by the insufficient typographical resources at Petrograd. T...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 51 Small entrepreneurs, small and middle class proprietors, small and more or less well to do peasants, petite bourgeoisie, as well as those workers who have submitted to a bourgeois point of view. Class conscious workers, day laborers and the poo...

52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 53 Absolutely unnecessary. Immediately and unconditionally universal arming of the people shall be introduced so that they and the militia and the army shall be an integral whole. Capitalists must pay the workers for their days of service in the m...