ABSTRACT
If the outcome of the war were to be the mere determination of that national group which is to control the field of foreign investments and exploitations, there would be no place in it for any democratically minded people. The drafted socialist who considers the war a capitalists' war under the same obligation to obey the draft law as he is to pay the war taxes in time of peace. The public, and particularly labor, could popularly control the government, but they often failed to exert this control. In Socialism and the War George Herbert Mead’s criticizes Marxist socialism. He does not adopt the model of class conflict, historical materialism, or dialectical change proposed by Marx and Engel. Mead asked What are the Specific Interests of Labor in the War? Answered that democratic rights could solve the problems of workers in an aristocracy.
