The war, by unleashing a frenzy of chauvinism, has exposed the submission to it of both the democratic (Populist) intelligentsia and the Socialist-Revolutionary party, with complete instability of their oppositional current in *Mysl'*, and the main nucleus of the liquidators (*Nasha Zarya*), supported by Plekhanov. In fact, on the side of chauvinism stand also the OC [Organizational Committee], ranging from the camouflaged support of it by Larin and Martov to the principled defense of patriotist ideas by Axelrod, and also the Bund, in which Germanophile chauvinism predominates{165}. The Brussels bloc (3 July 1914) has completely collapsed. And the elements grouping themselves around *Nashe Slovo*{166} waver between platonic sympathy for internationalism and the striving for unity at any cost with *Nasha Zarya* and the OC. The Social-Democratic faction of Tskheidze similarly wavers—on the one hand, having expelled the Plekhanovist, i.e., the chauvinist, Man'kov, on the other hand, desiring at any cost to cover up the chauvinism of Plekhanov, *Nasha Zarya*, Axelrod, the Bund, etc.

The task of the Social-Democratic workers' party in Russia is the further consolidation of proletarian unity, created in 1912–1914 chiefly by *Pravda*{167}, and the restoration of party Social-Democratic organizations of the working class on the basis of decisive organizational demarcation from social-chauvinists. Temporary agreements are permissible only with those Social-Democrats who stand for decisive organizational rupture with the OC, *Nasha Zarya*, and the Bund.

Written in February, no later than 19 February (4 March), 1915

Published 29 March 1915 in the newspaper *Social-Democrat*, no. 40

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