Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM DEAD
Professor Emery Yale Declares That the Lesson From War-Theory of Class Struggle Must be Rewritten The War of Nations Has Absorbed the War of Classes National Feeling Deeper Than Class Feeling.

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 The concluding lecture in the popu- lar Slater Hall course was given on Monday evening by Professor Henry Crosby Emery of Yale university his subject being The War of Glasses.
 He spoke first of Morris Hilquits' recent speech in New York upon the war in which he said that the only change he would. make in the social ist theory on account of it would be in the first sentence of the communist manifesto of 1S4S. He would change this to read "All history up to date has been history of class and na- tional struggle. sI Significant From Socialist Leader,
 The original sentence has not the word national. This Is interesting and leader admits that the manifesto must be rewritten in the light of the present war.
 After referring to his former lec- lures and this definition of the three theories held by society of individual gave the history of the manifesto, written by Karl Marx. and of the men of 1S4S. Their idea was that after all kinds of class antagonism there were now only two classes left the bour- goisie and the proletariat- This is 
 thodox socialist.
 Two Things That Men Fight For.
 Now he must change it to include races as well as classes. He must give up his one single point of view and admit there are at least two things that men fight for Since 184S the socialists have made much of the coming enevltable struggle De tween the two classes. On the oth- CT hand there is much talk of the neutral interests of employer and em- ployee. They are neutral as far as production goes, but when it comes to dividing up the profits they clash.
 Do We Want Industrial Peace?
 This antagonism is a sign of life and vigor, Do we want industrial peace2 The socialists ransacked all history for every instance of class struggle, they became blessed with the idea and made it a philosophy, the one and final statement and could see no other con- f1ict in the world. It is a great con. cession for them to admit any other quarrel They believed that they in this belief. They were a great body of men, students of history and social history and social problems, and having political power in Germany. Belgium and Trance. Believing only in class war, they really thought that the working men in France and Ger many would unite against a struggle between capitalistic groups for more territory.
 National Feeling Prevailed.
 But national feeling is deeper than class feeling. Had the working men felt the class more fundamental than the nation and had they united, they could have stopped war. They did not. and so they proved the socialists and their theory wrong. For the people were not driven into the war against their will. The majority of the Ger man socialists voted for it.
 The Important Lesson,
 The important lesson learned from the war is that through their will a1- ways be a class struggle, there is a stronger and more precious struggle of race groups The war of nations has absorbed the war of classes. In each country it is a struggle against the World-not among themselves. What will happen if the Germans lose, or win. Neither democracy nor autocracy. The socialist will march back with a bill to be paid for they were the backbone of the fight.
 Rank and File Patriotic.
 Though leaders have violent doc trines, the rank and file of them not dangerous. They are not "enemieS of the Fatherland,' but have been pa trfotic in this fight. Economic capa- city determines victory or defeat in the long run. German industrialism has made German militartsm possible. Economic efficiency is the result of the workingman. Nations stand or fall on the industrial efficiency of the rank and file.
 Things have changed in a year It is no longer startling or revolutionary ! to have 8 class struggle. All schemes for class as well as national peace are futile.
 Which the Fundamental Fact? But why are we afraid of peace ? Why are the words war, struggle. con-