The Class Struggle: Devoted to International Socialism, November-December 1917, Vol. 1 No. 4
Cover announcement: Trotzky, Lenine, Kautsky on the Russian Revolution!
Editors: Louis B. Boudin, Louis C. Fraina, and Ludwig Lore
Featured Authors: L. C. Fraina, Leon Trotzky, L. B. Boudin, Karl Kautsky, Ludwig Lore, N Lenine, S. J. Rutgers, Edward Dryden, Lionel Petersen, and Marius
Publisher: The Socialist Publication Society, Vol. 1 No.4 November-December, 1917
Paperbound
Page Count: 120
This is a vivid time capsule and a rare surviving piece of real-time left-wing propaganda. The thunderbolt that was the Russian Revolution occurred first in February 1917, when the Czar was deposed. But it is often forgotten that a series of factions jostled for power through 1917 until the Bolsheviks triumphed in October, and even then they had a long civil war to win. This magazine is Volume 1, number 4, i.e. it was jolted into life with the February Revolution. The authors are a range of socialist thinkers and political actors. The most interesting are Trotsky, Lenin and Kautsky on the international stage, but the great hopes invested in the IWW Wobblies make them the lead article. Trotsky is looking ahead to the inevitable civil war and hopefully [to him] exporting the revolution; he wants to hear nothing about pacifism. Lenin declaims on the role of political parties, a misdirection since he intended to destroy all others but needed to hide that until the Bolsheviks consolidated power.
Condition: Very good. Original stapling is present, as are all pages. The covers and pages are uncut and unmarked other than the inevitable fading.
Cover announcement: Trotzky, Lenine, Kautsky on the Russian Revolution!
Editors: Louis B. Boudin, Louis C. Fraina, and Ludwig Lore
Featured Authors: L. C. Fraina, Leon Trotzky, L. B. Boudin, Karl Kautsky, Ludwig Lore, N Lenine, S. J. Rutgers, Edward Dryden, Lionel Petersen, and Marius
Publisher: The Socialist Publication Society, Vol. 1 No.4 November-December, 1917
Paperbound
Page Count: 120
This is a vivid time capsule and a rare surviving piece of real-time left-wing propaganda. The thunderbolt that was the Russian Revolution occurred first in February 1917, when the Czar was deposed. But it is often forgotten that a series of factions jostled for power through 1917 until the Bolsheviks triumphed in October, and even then they had a long civil war to win. This magazine is Volume 1, number 4, i.e. it was jolted into life with the February Revolution. The authors are a range of socialist thinkers and political actors. The most interesting are Trotsky, Lenin and Kautsky on the international stage, but the great hopes invested in the IWW Wobblies make them the lead article. Trotsky is looking ahead to the inevitable civil war and hopefully [to him] exporting the revolution; he wants to hear nothing about pacifism. Lenin declaims on the role of political parties, a misdirection since he intended to destroy all others but needed to hide that until the Bolsheviks consolidated power.
Condition: Very good. Original stapling is present, as are all pages. The covers and pages are uncut and unmarked other than the inevitable fading.
Cover announcement: Trotzky, Lenine, Kautsky on the Russian Revolution!
Editors: Louis B. Boudin, Louis C. Fraina, and Ludwig Lore
Featured Authors: L. C. Fraina, Leon Trotzky, L. B. Boudin, Karl Kautsky, Ludwig Lore, N Lenine, S. J. Rutgers, Edward Dryden, Lionel Petersen, and Marius
Publisher: The Socialist Publication Society, Vol. 1 No.4 November-December, 1917
Paperbound
Page Count: 120
This is a vivid time capsule and a rare surviving piece of real-time left-wing propaganda. The thunderbolt that was the Russian Revolution occurred first in February 1917, when the Czar was deposed. But it is often forgotten that a series of factions jostled for power through 1917 until the Bolsheviks triumphed in October, and even then they had a long civil war to win. This magazine is Volume 1, number 4, i.e. it was jolted into life with the February Revolution. The authors are a range of socialist thinkers and political actors. The most interesting are Trotsky, Lenin and Kautsky on the international stage, but the great hopes invested in the IWW Wobblies make them the lead article. Trotsky is looking ahead to the inevitable civil war and hopefully [to him] exporting the revolution; he wants to hear nothing about pacifism. Lenin declaims on the role of political parties, a misdirection since he intended to destroy all others but needed to hide that until the Bolsheviks consolidated power.
Condition: Very good. Original stapling is present, as are all pages. The covers and pages are uncut and unmarked other than the inevitable fading.