V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v14; en:CW/CW21;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

* OUTLINE OF THE PAMPHLET.

1. Character of the war: imperialism (as the basic [feature]).
Imperialism as the last stage of the development of capitalism.
National war: to unite the national territory as the basis
for the beginning of the development of capitalism, to sweep away the pre-capitalist survivals of the bourgeois epoch.
v[ersus]* imperialist war: all are already cramped in the sinking capitalist ship, to push aside others and postpone the end of capitalism.
2. Long-standing
(30-40 years) diplomatic preparation of the war: its “naturalness”, “expectedness” (and “unaccustomed”: Adler at the last session of the International Bureau)¹.
3. Subsidiary character of the national war (Serbia) in the present war.
4. Utilisation by the bourgeoisie of the traditions of national war: “La patrie”, Luzzati**²
5. “Fatherland”. Quotation from the Communist Manifesto. Its analysis³.
6. (a) The workers have no fatherland.
(b) First within the nation.--- c[onfer]*** the wars of 1790-1814, 1859, 1866, 1870⁴.
the present war of India or China with Japan (eventuell)*⁵
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(c) and the same in the bourgeois sense.
(d) Without the joint efforts of the proletariat liberation is impossible.
(e) the fall of national barriers.
7. Attitude to this truth: defence of nationalism by the opportunists (“Jaures in ‘L’Armee n[ouvelle]’...”**⁶ (H. Wendel in Neue Z[eit]. 1914, No. 18, p. 843; for Jaurès)⁷.
8. Vacillations in the International: defensive and offensive war or “the point of view of the proletarian interest”?
9. Quotations from old statements by Bebel and others and silence about the resolution of 1912⁸.
10. The Basle Manifesto (a) quotations from Stuttgart
(b) threat of civil war (1871 and 1905).
(c) “crime”⁹
11. “Calamities of invasion”*** = sophism (Kautsky).
“Tolstoyanism” = id[em] “Practical question: victory or defeat of one’s own country” = s[ophism]¹⁰.
All this reduces to the question of two camps. Yes, but which two camps? nations or classes?
What do the workers lose with the fatherland? The “eternal” in the fatherland.
The fatherland as a bourgeois state and its frontiers,— the fatherland as language, territory, etc.
12. Practical conduct of socialists with regard to the given war; Before the war: H. Wendel in Neue Z[eit] 1914, No. 8¹¹ p. 818
idem V[orwarts]**
L[eipziger] V[olkszeitung] about the war with “tsarism” idem V[orwarts].*****¹³
*
— in contrast. Ed.
** — “Fatherland”, Luzzati. — In the manuscript a slip: “Luzzano”. Underlined in red pencil. Ed.
*** — compare, juxtapose. Ed.
**** — presumably. — This word is written in indelible pencil, and then traced over in ink. Ed.
***** — Jaurès in “The New Army”. Ed.
****** — invasion. Ed.
******* — the same. Ed.
******** The words: “idem Vorwarts” in both cases are written in indelible pencil, and then traced over in ink. Ed.

“THE EUROPEAN WAR AND EUROPEAN SOCIALISM”
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13. After the war: The Serbian
p. 10 of extracts!
socialists. conquest?
14. The Russian S.D. (walking out of the hall is not an influence; cf. V. Fischer)¹⁴.
ad 15.** “Volunteering” of the Russians in Paris??
(1) declaration of the Russian socialists.
(2) “Leder and Co. ‘Golos’ No. 9.”***
The position of Plekhanov¹⁵
Sovremennoye Slovo extracts¹⁶ “Golos” No. 3 (15.IX)¹⁷
Smirnov (E.) and P. Maslov.****¹⁸
16. The French and Belgian socialists.
They are being strangled? Therefore... a bourgeois minister?
Vandervelde. Guesde. (Authorities?) Voting of credits?
What to do? Preach and prepare civil war. Go over not into ministers, but into illegal propagandists!
The chauvinism of Vaillant and Co. in L’Humanite]¹⁹.
Compère-Morel about 1792 and...
...the Russians in Poland²⁰
The despicable G. Hervé and the anarchist-syndicalists.
“Democracy”— but an alliance with the tsar?²¹
17. The English socialists.
Hyndman and the attitude of the German S.D. press towards him before the war²².
Keir-Hardie and MacDonald²³.
Struggle against the chauvinists of one’s own country.
Prussian militarism, and Egypt? and the chaining of women?
Participation in recruiting.
18. The German S.D. The main thing. Hegemony in the International. From whom much will be demanded.