Young Socialists Magazine 1916 Jan June.pdf

, THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINE
left, dO.wJl to Socialists-has been
strl}i;~ . ~y ,such extraordi:lary
bli.ndness that it calls this terrible
hltman slaughter a ;'sacred" waf
of " Jibc{,3tion," and calls upon
men to lay down their lives-for
what For some phantom ideal
of "liberation," forgetting that
inner freedom is the sole true
freedom, and tha t. nnally . no one
llrcvcnted th«: gonrnments from
gi"ing. to the oppressed nations
-before the war and wilholtt tile
war-at least that external freedom
which is now, presumably,
being secured. at the price of the
criminal shedding of a sea of
hlood .
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People dream o f dis3r11)ament
which the war is supposed to
bring. Brothers. do nOt belie;'e
it. F or the governments of today
to disarm the nations is tan·
tamount to dc!>troying thelll·
selves. hecau!>c these go\-ern~
ments arc upheld solely by state
vi.ol('nce. \l1ld do not enjoy the
free l'(lIlfidence o i their peoples.
H o~v l'an they affo rd to cast a.s i (~c
theIr sale prop--the soldIer s
bayonet ~
The Germans arc no t our enemies.
and the Russians anll the
f'rench arc no t the encmie:s of
tbe Ge rl)\all ~. The commo n
ent:lll)' t - U!l all. to whatever nationality
we u1ay belong, is the
brpte i)l o u rselves.
This truth has never ueen so
dear1): confirmed as nj)~Y, when
the meu of the twelllieth century;
intoxicat('d with their fal se sci·
enct', extre!:Il~ly, pro ud of it. of
their external culture and their
machine civilization. ha"c "Iuldenty
discovered the true plane
of their development; this plane
has turned o ut to be no higher
than that on which our ance!lto r s
stood in the time- -Qf Attila and
Genghi~-Khan. "It makes one extremely
sad to know that 2,000
years of Christianity ha"e passed,
scarcely leaving a tral;O 0 11 men.
13m this is int