Note:

On the Defeat of One's Own Country in the Imperialist War

1. Axelrod of the first variety (for defeat, but not of fundamentals).

2. Axelrod of the second variety (against).

3. The bourgeoisie and its revolutions

4. Defeat for every country and all governments—absurdity or transition to civil war.

5. By agreement of all countries? Should one wait?

6. Russia: bourgeois revolution

the national question.

7. Defeat of Russia + German and Austrian chauvinism.

8. "Neither victories nor defeats"? = Status quo…

9[60]. "Hochland" on social democracy.{275}

10[61]. "The main enemy in one's own country."

11. A loophole for chauvinism = renunciation of "defeat"…

12[62]. Defeat and the calamities of the people… (sophistry)…

13[63]. "Liberation" from colonies (and oppressed nations) is a blessing for revolution. (Imperialist war = for redivision of colonies and for great-power privileges.)

14[64]. "Defense of great-power privileges"?

15[65]. Three directions of hatred.

Written before July 8 (21), 1915

First published in 1934 in Lenin Miscellany XXIX

Printed from the manuscript