Young Socialists Magazine 1913 July Dec.pdf

[~,_,*,_.,*,,*, _____toThe Young Firins. lTJm r011lfO 1tOOUU8T1' .... OA&DB--------The strongest section of theSocialist Party to-day js theFinns. There aTe over 13.500dues-paying members in their Let liS assume that none of us c1ysl1ls. and trace the devel~pmentof animal life from the tn­federation.know what is "Reform" and what. They have accomplished more is ·'Revolution.'· Those who are vertebrate to the \'ertebrate, andposted will understand all the from the lizard to the bird, fromthan any other part of the SocialistParty. They own three daily low all the easier.we come to the prototype of thehetter; those who are not will fol­the quadruped and mammal tillpapers. and many hans aud cooperath·tenterprises. The \'aluepooille. and finally reach the\¥ e hear people talk about the poodle hims.elf, and SO forwordthenlip we find radical changes"Reform Forces," about "Evolution"and about "Revolution" inof thei r property. totals almost amillion dollars.ways that arc highly mixed. Letat eac h step. changes from withinthat alter the very essence oftiSHow do they manage to do it?dear up our terms. Reformhis being, and that put, or willmeans II change of externals;is a question often asked. Thisput. upon him each time a stampRevolution-peilceful or bloody;is answered in part in the factthat alters the ve ry system of histhe peacefulness or the blooclinessof it cuts no figure whateverexistence, That is Revolution.that the FioniS'l1 movement isSo with society. Whenever apractically a young people's in the essence of the questiol\­c han ~e leaves the internal memovement.A grey-haired F innishSocialist is a curiosity. 95 per T ake. for instance, a poodle. form; whenever the internal me­means a change from within. (.'hani!'m untouched, we have Re­cent. of the membership being You can reform him in a lot of chanism is changed, we haveunder thirty-five years of age. ways. You can shave his whole Revolution.boclv anet leave a tassel at the tip or course, no internal changeThe Finnish Socialist Federationdeveloped out of social or­ throngh his ear. a nd tie a blue manifestations. The internal '(If liis tai l : you may bore a hole is possible without externalJ:anization of r.otlng Finns how 011 onl! and red bow on the changes denoted by the revolu­..,hrougham the country, which other; you may put a brass collararound his neck wilh your to the eagle go accompanied withLioll or evolution of the lizard in­, called themselves ··\Vorking·initials on and a trim little blanketon his hack; yet. throughout. And herein lies one of the pitfalisexternal marks, So with societ\'.men's Associations." The Socialistsmanaged to secure control a poodle he wa!S and a poodle he into which dilettanteism or " Reforms"invariably tumble. Theyof these bodies and made them remains. Each of these changesSocialist organizations. The first probably brought a co rrespondin,g'change in the pooclle's life. change with internals; and theihave noticed that external~association to join the SocialistWhcn shorn of all his hair except rest sati s6ec.l with mere externalParty was that at Cleveland in:l. tal\sel at the tail's tip he was dlanges. without looking behindJ9Q4. Others followed in quick owned by a wag who probably the curtain.order.ca reel only for the fun he could \Ve Socialists are not Refarm~There q,re 2 17 finnish locals, get out of his pet: when he appears~ai l y decked in bows. prob~ers; we are Revolutionists. "!Iewhich have 107 dramatic societies,23 singing societies, 28 ment is of tenderer sort ; when for forms. We want a change ofSocialists do not prC;>)lOse toably hh~ young mistre~s' attach~ . change forms. We care nothingbands and 53 gymna~tic and athleticclubs. The young people alit fit. the treatment hc receives society. \ Ve see in England alater we see him in the fancier's the inside of the mechanism ofare the life of all these subsidiaryorgani zations.yet again. and probably arc, dif­German>: a ~cept ered empeTor ;and the uses he is put to may be crowned monarch; we: see in,ferent. Each of these tran!'formationsor stages may mark a crowned president, and we fait towe see 111 tillS coulltry an un­There is no separate youngpeople's organization among the veritable epoch in the poodle's see the essential difference betweenforms. We are like grownFinns, 'all young people paying existence. And yet. essentially,a poodle he was. a poodle he is,d ues direct to the Party. The localsthen carry on their propa­T hat is Reform.we are skeptics as to the sensechil \he nnly powcr that can!WARBy Karl Kautsky\\"ar ili in~e p arable from the hi s­tory of modern production, becausethe latter re!'uhs not onl y in class,but also in national antagonism.\\'hell the economic interests of thepowers ruling twO ~ vc re ign statesclash. whcn the~' become iosur·monntahle, war is the only recourse.There i~ but onc way in which warcan be de!>t royed- to destruy. to removeits cau:;cs. the economic antagonismwhich are at its root.This can he rlone only by theworking clas'. because it willimplant common ideals, solidarityin place of competition. This canbe dont only by the Social Democracywhich will destroy competition,and will put in place theproduction of commodities by all,for all, production hy society, forsociety. Social and internationalpeace, can be reali:ted only by S0-cialism.