62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 63 Bolschewismus, der Militarismus der Faulenzer first days of the revolution, had driven everything before it.
The Majority Socialists left nothing untried to fan this resentment into an open flame. Not only did the government make use of ...

60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 61 all ranks came out with counter revolutionary sentiments and proposals under the spiritual protection of the government that retained them in power in spite of all protests, showed the hopelessness of such an alliance, and finally led th...

58 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 59 In the second year of the war Liebknecht was sent to the front as a non combatant soldier, where he was shortly afterward seriously hurt by a falling tree trunk. In March of the same year Rosa Luxemburg was sentenced to a year in prison ...

56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 57 to take the offensive, that the masses may follow us with full confidence in our powers.
In this connection, and because both Rosa Luxemburg and Liebknecht, and in fact all supporters of a more general adoption of mass action in Germany,...

54 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 55 the abolition of social wrongs in the anarchistic sense, it is of the conviction that the proletariat must be prepared to use its whole power for the achievement of political equality. The political mass strike can be succesful only with...

52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 53 German, in Polish as in French, and was well known in most countries of Europe as a fascinating and thoroughly learned speaker.
In Poland she became a member of the Polish SocialDemocratic Party, the strictly Socialist, anti national win...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 51 military service, against war. He was among the first to recognize that militarism in Germany was more than the tool of the capitalist class, that it was becoming the spirit that dominated and controlled the very destinies of the nation....

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG 49 the history of this movement within the German party, and the position taken by its leaders, not only during the war but for two decades in the past, they would be forced to admit that Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht did not act madly...

46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 47 ization for the revolutionary conquest of the party by the party! The American Socialist Party needs a definite, organized, vocal left wing, a unified expression of revolutionary Socialism in theory and practice. Thus alone shall we prepare ...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 45 The way to wage war upon a Labor Party, should it eventuate, is not to promise more reforms than the Labor Party, is not to plead and placate, but to develop the revolutionary consciousness of the proletariat, to awaken to action the great, ...

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 43 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE tarian. The British Labor Party policy is a petty bourgeois policy, a counter revolutionary policy, as has been clearly apparent from its unity with imperialistic Capitalism in the British Cabinet, its declaration that the war was a war of d...

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 41 40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE develop the conception and practice of political strikes, to make it realize that its action should centre in the large plants, that when it wants to act, its action should develop out of the mill, mine and factory. Our political action shou...

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 39 38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE with the development in the proletariat of a more conscious and aggressive spirit.
But Capitalism cannot reconstruct itself. Capitalism cannot solve the multiplying antagonisms of a system of production that is decaying, that is becoming int...

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 37 36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE contagious. It is admitted that if Germany becomes definitely Bolshevik, all Europe will become Bolshevik. And then?
Inevitably, this will develop revolutionary currents in the United States, will develop other revolutions, will accelerate a...

34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 35 Russia and Germany, concerning the Bolsheviki (although he, too, has jubilated over the Socialist Republics in Germany and Russia, in the approved style. he accepted the war for democracy (indeed, much worse, declared in April this year, tha...

32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 33 revolution was impossible in Russia, because of its economically undeveloped condition and because the proletariat was not organized into industrial unions; that the day of the Bolsheviki victory was the day of their defeat; that the Bolshev...

30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 31 is characteristic of its general policy, of its anaemic, petty bourgeois spirit.
The accomplishments of the Bolsheviki are epochal. They have maintained for fifteen months a revolutionary dictatorship in Russia, have accomplished the first s...

28 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISMI 29 American proletariat is not possessed of reserves for action, but because of the organizations of this proletariat. This is one aspect of our problems.
The American proletariat has an inspiring history of aggressive struggles. The grea Home...

26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM 27 ous.
And in this fight, worker proletarian, you know your place.
Never before in history has the working class had an opportunity as now, but never before has its situation been so perilAnd the danger lies precisely in the fact that capital,...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LENIN VERSUS WILSON 25 ism and its subterranean alliances. And, just as the socialists in all countries, with the exception of small minorities, concluded a Burgfrieden, and aided capital in the universal clash, so did they also in free America.
The American socialists imagin...

23 22 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Lenin Versus Wilson By Karl ISLAND (STOCKHOLM)
ty it gives no complete or revolutionary understanding whatever of the process of social evolution.
We have already said above, and will show more in detail in our further exposition, that the teaching of Marx and Engels conc...

21 THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 20 THE CLASS STRUGGLE sighs does he admit the possibility that, in order to overthrow the system of the exploiters, it may be necessary, unfortunately, mind you. to use force; but every application of force demoralizes, as it were, him who uses it. And this is said in ...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 19 tation of Marxism, acceptable only to the bourgeoisie, and founded in theory on a complete ignoring of the important circumstances and reflections expressed in the summarizing passage from Engels that is above quoted in full.
First. At the very be...

16 17 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE STATE AND REVOLUTION The Dying Out of the State and Revolution By Force Engels words concerning the dying out of the state have now such wide circulation, they are so frequently quoted, and they so sharply indicate the nature of the customary misrepresentation of Marx...

15 THE STATE AND REVOLUTION 14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ther presentation of the views of Marx and Engels on the state as it now is.
The final summing up of his views is given by Engels in his most popular work, as follows: ment with the industrialists, or merely a friendly understanding? What is the r...