100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PHILIPP SCHEIDEMANN 101 Philipp Scheidemann PEN PICTURE Philipp Scheidemann, erstwhile compositor, a good public school education to which he has added considerably, an open head, clever, mentally very active. born agitator, familiar with all the tricks of a demagogue. He k...

J ACCUSE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 110 111 It is the state lack of principle that has bred in me a hatred, not against Austria as a country, but against Austria as an immoral entity, against its lying spirit. This Austrian spirit exists in all of its parts and in all of its nations; all are degraded by ...

128 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 129 trayed the class struggle and, in so doing, the decisions of the Second International, must be abandoned, the policies of the Social Imperialists and Social Patriots emphatically condemned, and the principles of the class struggle proclaimed. The future ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

112 113 THE CLASS STRUGGLE be recognized by the whole revolutionary democracy and to whom the Pro visional Government could hand over its authority without a struggle; Therefore, the Menshevik Fraction calls upon the Congress to recognize officially the absolute necessity of an amicable settlemen...

124 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 125 Stedman and John Work, felt that the time had not yet come to take decisive action on this question, on a matter that in importance overshadowed all other questions a thousandfold. They preferred to wait for developments in Russia, to see whether or not ...

154 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LAND QUESTION 135 Such was the general program of the Russian Social Democracy up to the Revolution, although the left wing, with a Bolshevist tendency, and with Lenin at its head, promulgated in principle the complete nationalization of all privately owned land, even t...

152 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE LAND QUESTION 153 political parties that constitute the present political strength of the Russian Revolution. The demands of their agrarian programs, in part or in whole, are contained in the decisions of the Soviets of Workers and Soldiers Delegates, the Soviets of Pea...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SAMUEL GOMPERS 15 can McDonald got through with him. too, wanted to take him to task for his reactionary policy and for his untruthful charges against Comrades Debs and Berger and myself, but Frank Hayes, who presided, came to his rescue by entertaining a motion to close deb...

THE CLAS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 115 Worth St. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Vol. SEPTEMBER OCTOBER, 1917 No. Editor: LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORB Vol. SEPTEMBER OCTOBER, 1917 No....

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 ...

340 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORLIALS 341 ants and then causing a depreciation of the value of the property of his neighbor litigant.
This chronic shortage became acute with the importation of thousands of Negroes into the larger cities of the North.
Colored families paid fantastic prices for dwelli...

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382 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE INVINCIBLE POWER 383 Government, that is, such an apparatus in which the head executives are persons directly elected by the Soviets of Workers Peasants and Soldiers Deputies, there can be no contradiction between the executive power and the masses of the workers, just ...

388 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CONVENTION IMPRESSIONS 389 In the four years of imperialistic mass murder blood has flown in rivers. Now every drop of that precious fluid must be preserved, with veneration, in crystal vessels. Unfettered revolutionary energy and big hearted humanity these alone are the br...

426 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 427 WHY DON YOU RETURN HOME?
To the American and British Soldiers conmen and peasant deputies) is the only real democratic Government in the world?
Of course you don know all this. Because your masters are afraid to tell you the truth about revolutionary Russia. T...

EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE 436 437 AHTAUKCKNA.
PARLIAMENT OR SOVIET The beginnings of a Township Co operative may be formed through the free organization of any number of small farmers who combine for co operative work.
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The socialized industries shall aid the Township Co operatives by the ...

620 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 621 skillful newspaper and publicity propaganda, together with overtime wages of a considerable portion of the workers had created a determination to see it through in place of the former opposition.
Nothing is known as yet about the results in the West.
This in ...

626 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 62 tation of having candidated for almost every office in the gift of his party without ever having been elected, whose reputation as a cheap wit after dinner speaker makes him a popular guest at such intellectual feasts, charged the red flag in a venomous speech...