V. I. Lenin

Plans for a Pamphlet Statistics and Sociology {1}

Statistics and Sociology

1

A) Historical conditions of national movements.

B) Some theoretical questions relating to national movements.

C) Right of nations to self-determination and Rosa Luxemburg.

D) Cultural-national autonomy.

| A) | Historical conditions of national movements.... [BOX ENDS:] [[ succession of epochs;
types of countries as historical stages in this succession....

]] | || A. Historical background to national movements .... (p. 2 {2} ) Chapter 1. Some statistics p. 4 . I and II p. 8 {3} 2. Three “types” of countries.... (Types historical stages.) |
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| B) | Some theoretical questions [Some unsettled questions? {4} ] relating to national movements. | “State of nationalities?” [stage of completed national movements....] 3. Imperialism and division of the world.... (diagram?) 4. Rule: oppressor and oppressed nations.... 5. “System of states....” {{ system of national states system of imperialist states

}} |
| B. | (1) [BOX ENDS:] [[

On the concept of feasibility

]] 1. “Feasibility” of self-determination. |
| (2) | 2 bis : “Dualism” and monism.... }} | [BUS BOX:] 2. National wars in the “epoch” of imperialism. {{ Hilferding. {7} Concept of “epoch”. Patouillet. Junius. {8} |
| [BUS BOX POINTS TO THIS TARGET:] to A.→6. |
| (3) | [BOX ENDS:] [[ Annexations and
colonies

]] 3. Annexations and self-determination. 4. Colonies and self-determination. | 7. Concurrence of imperialist and national wars.... America 1783—the “possible” and the real. |
| (4) | [BOX ENDS:] [[ Lensch’s arguments ]] | {{ 5. Lensch vs. Struve. Lensch’s “arguments”.... {9} 6. Engels on the 1866 treaty (separate sheet).... |
| (5) | {{ 7. Imperialist Economism and “ultra-imperialism”.... |
| (6) | {{ 8. The state and state construction. 9. Democracy and socialism. 10. Minimum and maximum. |
| (7) | || [BOX:] 11. Social-chauvinism vs. Kautskyism on the question of self-determination
and imperialism. |
| (8) | United States of Europe: ...

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Patouillet (Wilhelm II).... Colonies. |
| (9) | Social-pacifism as embellishment of imperialism (K. Kautsky. Dec. 1916) {10} |

2

Distinction between the oppress  o r and the oppress  e d
countries

| + Marx on Ireland 1869 (( from “Beitr\"age zur Biographie” {11} )) | || || | European states and colonies in 18 76 and 19 16 . “It wasn’t worth while emancipating the Negroes” (Wirth). Marx on the state: “ der heutige Staat” {5} ?? (NB) |
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| + Engels about 1866 treaty its abrogation
(separate sheet). | || || | “Law” of state concentration???? |
| + Lensch’s “arguments” (his 2 articles).... | || || | National specifics of oppressed nations (Wirth on Ireland). Engels on Ireland in the event of war between America and Britain. Neue Zeit 1915–16? |
| | || || | ...“Imperialist Economism”.... }} “Ultra-imperialism”.... }} Two absurdities }} |
| “Era of national wars” (( Patouillet and Junius )) | | | | “There can be no national wars” in the imperialist “epoch”. (To make it
stronger!) Concept of “epoch”.... |

3

Old and new studies of the national question:

| To A: | 1. Three “types” of countries. 2. “Types”=historical stages. 3. Uneven development. | {{ “State of nationalities.” Incompleteness of this concept. }} |
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| To B {{ | Furtherance of reforms: Bismarck vs. 1848 Imperialist war of 1914–17 vs. 1848 (!!!) Imperialism and division of the world Imperialist wars on the basis of slavery, etc. Concurrence of imperialist and national wars. |
| Etwa | Historical conditions of national movements A. Some statistics. (Facts are stubborn
things. {6} ) B. Theoretical mistakes in the reasoning of some
Marxists on the national question. C. Right of nations to self-determination and Rosa Luxemburg. D. Cultural-national autonomy. | }} old studies.... |
| To B: | Imperialism and the national question. “ Feasibility of national self-determination. Annexations and national self-determination. Colonies and national self-determination. The state and state construction. “Dualism” and “monism” in the national question. Diversity of movements towards a single goal. “Get out of the colonies”?? Socialism and colonies (Engels 1882). Jewry—nation? Integration of nations? |

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Notes:
{1}
See present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 271–77.— Ed .

{2}
A reference to page 2 of the pamphlet MS. (see ibid., pp. 271–73).— Ed .

{3}
Ibid., pp. 273–76, 276–77.— Ed .

{4}
These words are in English in the original.— Ed .

{5} “The modern state.”— Ed .

{6}
The last three words are in English in the original— Ed .

{7}
A reference to R. Hilferding’s book Finance Capital . The Recent Phase in the Development of Capitalism . Authorised translation
from the German by I. Stepanov, Moscow, 1912.

p. 388

{8}
Joseph Patouillet, L’impérialiste américain (American Imperialism), Dijon, 1904. =

Junius—Rosa Luxemburg’s pseudonym; her book Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie (Crisis of Social-Democracy) was published in 1916.

For Lenin’s extracts from this work see present edition, Vol. 39,
pp. 209–12.

p. 388

{9}
A reference to two articles of the German chauvinist Paul Lensch,
carried in the magazine Die Glocke (The Bell): “Die
Selbstbestimmungsflause” (Bragging about Self-Determination) in No. 8,
1915, and “Sozialismus und Annexionen in der Vergangenheit” (Socialism
and Annexations in the Past) in No. 9, 1916. Lenin’s extracts from these
articles are in Lenin Miscellany XXX , pp. 118–27.

p. 388

{10}
An apparent reference to the following five articles by Kautsky: =

1) “Sozialdemokratische Anschauungen \"uber den Krieg vor dem jetzigen
Krieg” (Social-Democratic Views on War Before the Present War)—Die
Neue Zeit No. 13, December 29, 1916; =

2) “Neue Sozialdemokratischen Auffassungen vom Krieg” (New
Social-Democratic View on War)— Die Neue Zeit No. 14, January 5,
1917; =

3) “Friedensbedingungen” (Terms of Peace)— Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 15, 1916; =

4) “Die Aufnahme des Friedensangebots” (Acceptance of Peace
Proposal)— Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 21, 1916; =

5) “Der Heiland der Welt” (Saviour of the World)— Leipziger Volkszeitung No. 289, December 24, 1916.

p. 389

{11}
Neue Beitr\"age zur Biographie von Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel . (New Material for a Biography of Karl Marx and Frederick
Engels) published by Franz Mehring in Die Neue Zeit , XXV. Jahrgang, II. Bd. 1907.

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