Every single page in this number of Class Struggle, the last before the split in the Socialist Party, is of interest and value. Rosa Luxemburg’s ‘What Is Bolshevism?,’ Karl Radek’s ‘The Development of Socialism from Science into Action,’ S.J. Rutger’s ‘Greetings from Soviet Russia,’ and Lenin’s article on Brest Litovsk are available online. But don’t miss Max Bedacht’s survey of the California left before the split, Max Eastman on the Socialist Labor Party, August Strindberg’s play ‘Autumn Slush,’ and Abraham Sachas’ fascinating sociological analysis of Germany and Russia among the numerous historic documents and reports.

The Class Struggle. Vol. 3 No. 3. August, 1919.

Contents: Left or Right? by Ludwig Lore, What Is Bolshevism? by Rosa Luxemburg, Radicalism in California by Max Bedacht, The Development of Socialism from Science into Action by Karl Radek, Greetings from Soviet Russia by S.J. Rutgers, Autumn Slush by August Strindberg, The S.L.P. by Max Eastman, Russia and Germany A Sociological Analysis by A.S. Sachs, On the Unhappy Peace by N. Lenin, DOCUMENTS: The Soviet Government and Peace, Allied Propaganda, The Constitution of the Hungarian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, The Last Appeal of the Hungarian Soviet, Government to the Working Class of Hungary, EDITORIALS: The Lusk Fishing Expedition, The Railroad Situation, The Negro Problem a Labor Problem, Socialist Germany and Peace, The First Victim of the League of Nations, The National Convention.

The Class Struggle is considered among the first pro-Bolshevik journal in the United States and began in the aftermath of Russia’s February Revolution. A bi-monthly published between May 1917 and November 1919 in New York City by the Socialist Publication Society, its original editors were Ludwig Lore, Louis B. Boudin, and Louis C. Fraina. The Class Struggle became the primary English-language theoretical periodical of the Socialist Party’s left wing and emerging Communist movement. Its last issue was published by the Communist Labor Party of America.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/class-struggle/v3n3aug1919.pdf