V. I. Lenin

Editorial Note to the Article “The Ukraine and the War”

From the Editors

The above article has been written by a prominent sup porter of the
Dzvin trend. {1} Just recently, we have had to engage in
some sharp polemics with that trend. We still have some differences with its
writers. We do not regard as correct the concessions they have made to
nationalism; we believe the idea of “cultural-national autonomy” to
be bourgeois nationalism; we do not think that the best way to organise the
proletariat is to break it up into national curias, and we do
not share their views of the distinctions between “anational”,
national and international. Being advocates of consistent
internationalism , we entertain the hope that the author of this article and his
friends will learn the necessary lessons from the events of the European war.

At any rate, we are happy to note that precisely at this hard moment the said
group of Ukrainian leaders are most aware of their propinquity with
Sotsial-Demokrat . It is to their credit that they have succeeded in
separating them selves from the notorious “Alliance for the Liberation of
the
Ukraine”, {2} whose activity has nothing in common with
Social-Democracy.