This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...German Socialist is too proud of his "lessons of history," "fundamental principles," and the other doctrines which he learned at the university, to urge his compatriots to overthrow the solid realities of Germanism. One may admit the possibility of popular uprising if scarcity of food became so serious that both famine ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...German Socialist is too proud of his "lessons of history," "fundamental principles," and the other doctrines which he learned at the university, to urge his compatriots to overthrow the solid realities of Germanism. One may admit the possibility of popular uprising if scarcity of food became so serious that both famine and military defeat stared Germany in the face. But at no time during the war has this prospect loomed large on the horizon; and such an uprising might not have farreaching political effects. The popular revolts, partly social and partly religious, which figure in so many chapters of German history, did not colour the whole life of the people and penetrate the whole national structure. The industrial disquiet of the latter part of 1911 and the whole of 1912 seemed to be only one phase of the turmoil through which Germany was passing; it was one of many straws showing the direction of the time currents. Despite the fierce tirades against militarism within the past two or three years, the class from which the military party in any intelligible sense is recruited has never shown the same hostility to the mass of the toilers as the Schlotbarone, the new factory kings and the industrial magnates. The State in Germany has done more to protect the workers and the poorer population than in any other country. It is the great captains of industry and their journals that regard every strike as a revolution, which ought to be suppressed by force, and every trade union as a tyrannical combination of conspirators, which ought to be broken up. The Post said at the time of a serious strike in Berlin that the mass of the people, owning nothing, ought to be satisfied that the State guaranteed them any protection at all, while Deutsche Warte...
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