V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v29
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek); AI-translated.

O. BAUER. ((THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY)
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Otto Bauer: The National Question and Social Democracy. St. Petersburg, 1909.
From § 30: "Socialism and the Principle of Nationality," p. 534: ... "Never will a socialist community be able to forcibly incorporate entire nations into its composition. Imagine popular masses possessing all the benefits of national culture, taking full and active part in legislation and administration, finally, armed—would it be possible to forcibly subjugate such nations to the state authority of a foreign social organism? Every state authority rests on the force of arms. The standing people's army, thanks to an ingenious mechanism, still constitutes a tool in the hands of a certain person, family, class, just like the knightly and mercenary troops of bygone times. The army of a democratic community of a socialist society, however, is nothing other than the armed people, since it consists of highly cultured individuals, working freely in public workshops and taking full part in all areas of state life. Under such conditions, every possibility of foreign-national domination disappears" (531) (this is the end of § 30).
The United States of Europe—"not an idle dream," but "the inevitable end of the path upon which nations have long since set out" (542); If socialist Germany wanted to release some of its workers to Ukraine, it (Germany) would not release them "without guaranteeing them their cultural autonomy" (543)__
In § 29: "Imperialism and the Principle of Nationality" (512–529 of the Russian translation), the author cites Mulz 14'ι 1

O. BAUER. "THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY"

Geweritz on British imperialism, takes the disintegration of Turkey, Italy's desire to seize Albania: "They will nod toward Trent and Trieste, but will be thinking about Albania" (519). "In this way, the masses of the Italian nation will succeed in presenting an imperialist war with conquest aims as a war for national freedom" (519)__
Baghdad, Russia in Persia, etc.—"such are the seeds and elements of these future conflicts" (518)....
Likewise, "British imperialism unfolds before the electoral masses the enticing picture of a 400-million empire under the domination of a single British nation and thinks at the same time of the cartel profits of the iron magnates and of speculation on the London stock exchange"... "someday Russian imperialism will probably proclaim the freedom and unity of Poland and Ukraine in order to open new markets for the factory owners of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Łódź"... "and so German imperialism will have to come forward as the successor of the Greater German idea of 1818, will have to inscribe on its banner the realization of a single great German fatherland, when it decides to sacrifice the lives of German workers and peasants for the interests of capital on the Tigris and Euphrates" (522–523)....
"The destruction of Austria within capitalist society can only be the work of imperialism" (528)...
"The disintegration of Austria presupposes the victory of imperialism in Germany, Russia, and Italy. But the victory of imperialism presupposes the defeat of the working class in these countries" (527). Austrian workers must place their hopes not on the victory of imperialism....