1. The demonstration of the international proletarian movement is taking place this year during the greatest European war.

2. Perhaps there is nothing to be done in 1915 for a "review of forces"?

for a comparison of "successes and defeats"? for a counterposition of the bourgeois world and the proletarian world? – for it seems = everything has fallen apart.

3. But this is not so. War = the greatest crisis. Every crisis means (with the possibility of temporary delay and regression)

(α) acceleration of development (γ) (β) intensification of contradictions (β) (γ) their exposure (δ) the collapse of everything rotten, etc.

It is from this point of view that one must examine the crisis (on the day of the first of May): are there not in it progressive, useful features of every crisis.