V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v27; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

2ND INTERNATIONAL

REPEAT

1.  Theme: not an assessment of the war (> 1 year ago and outdated), but the (two) main lines in the development of the working-class movement and socialism.

Alias[201]:

2.  Introduction. Huysmans in Arnhem and in Rotterdam vs Wijnkoop et Henriette Roland-Holst in the “Berner Tagwacht”{166}.

173 Lenin has in mind the editorial in No. 43 of the newspaper “Avanti!” of February 12, 1916, “Intorno all’ organizzazione socialista internazionale” (“Concerning the Socialist International”). The Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee contain Lenin’s extracts from this article with his remarks.

** The word “Vorwärts” was inserted by Lenin in pencil, apparently later. Ed.

2a Etwa[202]:

NB:

At the OK: (1) shifting the blame onto the workers; (2) forgetting the connection with the liquidators.

–  CC.

–  minority. “I. S. D.” [203] – (Rühle) – Winnig

174 Apparently, this refers to correspondence from Paris about the congress of the French Socialist Party, December 25–29, 1915, printed in the newspaper “The Labour Leader” No. 52 of December 30, 1915, and Nos. 2 and 4 of January 13 and 27, 1916.

4.  England: Majority (Fabian Society, Labour Party,

5.  Italy: Minority (Bissolati) —

6.  Austria: Majority (Pernerstorfer)

7.  America: Rüssel        – (Hillquit)

8.  Australia: Majority (government party)

3.  Russia. Elections to the War-Industry Committees.

First elections of the CC (+ waverers) + defence bloc (Larin). Indignation of the bourgeoisie and the government. Gvozdev’s denunciation. Second elections. Victory of the chauvinists.

Trotsky and “Nashe Slovo” (The Chkheidze Fraction?)

CC

Perhaps this is splendid “diplomacy”, but there is not a grain of socialism in it.

Conclusion: two lines in the working-class movement of Russia.

Only two (the rest has fallen away).

Their class basis:

(α) in alliance with the national bourgeoisie =

(β) in alliance with the international proletariat =

Hyndmann) – Askew (?)[204] – “Forward”{167}.

“Glasgow [ NB: “Merthyr”{168} NB ]

Socialist”{169}

Italian official party. (“Avanti!” 12. II. 1916)

178         Apparently, this refers to the correspondence – an appeal “Die Internationalen in Oesterreich an die Internationalen aller Länder” (“The Internationalists of Austria to the Internationalists of All Countries”), printed in “Beilage zur ‘Berner Tagwacht’” Nos. 283 and 284, December 3 and 4, 1915.

179         Lenin has in mind articles by J. Debs: “When I shall Fight”, “‘Preparedness’ I Favor”, “The Only War I will Fight in”, “Never be a Soldier”, printed in the newspaper “Appeal to Reason” on August 25, September 11, December 11 and 25, 1915 (Nos. 1032, 1045 and 1047).

The Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee contain clippings from “Appeal to Reason” with Lenin’s markings.

The mockery of the social-chauvinists at Martov

(Boretsky in “Nashe Slovo”).

Stolypin

NB

“Khvostov’s Workers’ Party”{170}

= for strengthening the “national” bourgeoisie (= for the war)

= for the proletarian international revolution.

Their ideas: for “defence” (“defence of the fatherland”); (“defencists”);

against “defence of the fatherland”…

(cf. the Zimmerwald Manifesto)[205]

4.  Germany.

Struggle within the faction: Liebknecht and Rühle 2 and 2 0 (their inconsistency){171}.

Borchardt and “Lichtstrahlen”{172}

Winnig.

Rühle and the reply of “Vorwärts” (Analysis){173}.

5.  France.

(1) Vaillant in “L’Humanité” (letters?){174}

(“they have stopped their ears with bloody cotton wool”, “doctrinaires” etc. etc.)

** “The party, the government and Jouhaux are nothing but three heads under one hood.” Ed.

(3) Bourderon’s resolution ((analysis of its text)).

(4) Correspondence in “Labour Leader” about the split.

6.  England.

Majority (participation in the ministry) defence.

“The New Statesman”{175} (and its attitude)

(Labour Party + Fabian Society).

[ contra B. S. P., where 3/7 are internationalists ]

“Glasgow Socialist” ((statement at Zimmerwald{176})).

Letters in “Labour Leader”.

Article about betrayal.

Merthyr.

181         “Europa und Revolution” (“Europe and Revolution”) – under this title, an editorial note was printed in No. 35 of the newspaper “Volksrecht” of February 11, 1916, concerning an article signed I. S. in the Lucerne chauvinist newspaper “Vaterland” (“Fatherland”), in which the author wrote that the continuation of the war could cause a revolution, which is more dangerous “for throne and altar” than the war. The Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee preserve Lenin’s extract from “Volksrecht” with his remarks.

*“The Liebknecht Affair”. Ed.

Demonstration in Brunswick{177}.

(Strike in Hanover.)

Saumoneau leaflet{178}.

(Brizon & Co at Kienthal)[206].

Lloyd George in Glasgow and the workers’ reply.

British Socialist Party

(Hyndman’s departure{179})[207].

7.  Italy.

Bissolati – party

(Treves and his speech{180})

* Point 7 is crossed out in pencil in the manuscript. Ed.

192 “Tesnyaki” – a revolutionary trend in the Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party, which in 1903 formed itself into an independent Bulgarian Workers’ Social-Democratic Party. The founder and leader of the “Tesnyaki” was D. Blagoev, and later the “Tesnyaki” were led by Blagoev’s pupils – G. Dimitrov, V. Kolarov and others. In 1914–1918 the “Tesnyaki” opposed the imperialist war. In 1919 they joined the Communist International and formed the Communist Party of Bulgaria.

193 “Tribune”, “De Tribune” – a newspaper founded in 1907 by the left wing of the Dutch Social-Democratic Labour Party (Pannekoek, Gorter, Wijnkoop, Henriette Roland-Holst). From 1909, after the expulsion of the lefts from the party and their organisation of the Social-Democratic Party of Holland, it became the organ of this party; from 1918 – the organ of the Communist Party of Holland; it appeared under this name until 1937.

8.  Austria.

Pernerstorfer in “Neue Zeit”{181}

–  V. Adler – internationalists…

** The text was inserted by Lenin in pencil, apparently later. Ed.

9.  United States of North America. (“Let us stand aside and look”…)

Rüssel (V. Berger & Co) for “preparedness”.

“Jingo” Hillquit = diplomat[208]

Debs and his articles.

10.  Australia.

Correspondence in “Berner Tagwacht”{182}.

Article in “New Statesman”

I.  K.{183}) [209].

11.  Conclusions.

***** Idem – the same. Ed.

K. Kautsky in the Breitscheid correspondence (“either the old International, or half a dozen”).

Two and only two.

Throughout the world.

Diplomacy – hypocrisy – vacillation – self-deception?

The essence is not in the word.

ΣΣ = Huysmans[210]

* By thinking. Ed.

Not diplomatic covering up (“St. Petersburg slush”

–  Kautskyan Vaut mieux dire[211]),

but clarification to the masses.

Inevitability of the split.

*** The text from the word “Fellows” to the word “Revolution” was crossed out by Lenin in pencil. Ed.

“Iskra” No. 2 (1901): The Mountain and the Gironde.

The struggle against opportunism

The war accelerated

development – – – disintegration

in both directions.

Quid est Kienthal?[212]

Written between January 30 and February 4 (February 12 and 17), 1916

First published, according to the manuscript