PLAN FOR REVISING THE "DRAFT THESES OF AN ADDRESS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST COMMISSION AND TO ALL SOCIALIST PARTIES" 1

[After January 7, 1917]

T h e m e s:
§ 1: Two turning points (1).
§ 2: The objective political situation (5).
3: Bourgeois-pacifist phrases (6). (+ 2).
4: Exposure of hypocrisy (7).
5: Social-pacifism (8)+(3)
(+ 4).
6: Tasks of the socialists (9) — a (exposure of one's own government).
— b (struggle against one's own social-chauvinists).
— c (conditions of a democratic peace).
— d (the slogan of K. Liebknecht) 2.
— e (struggle against reformism).
— f (Regeneration) 3.
7. The fall of Grimm...
8. Practical proposals (10; 1 — 4).

The "Draft Theses of an Address to the International Socialist Commission and to All Socialist Parties" was written by V. I. Lenin in the first days of January 1917 (see Complete Collected Works, Vol. 30, pp. 273—285).

On January 7, 1917 (new style), the chairman of the ISC, R. Grimm, who held a Kautskyite position, contrary to the Swiss Left, pushed through the Board of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party a decision to postpone indefinitely the convocation of an extraordinary party congress on the question of the war. This signified an open defection of the Right Zimmerwaldists to the side of the social-chauvinists. In connection with this, Lenin decided to revise the draft, introducing a number of changes into it. On the document itself he made a note: "written before 7. I. 1917 and therefore partly outdated" (ibid., p. 451). Later, on the basis of this draft, Lenin wrote the address "To the Workers Who Support the Struggle Against the War and Against the Social-Chauvinists" (see Complete Collected Works, Vol. 30, pp. 286—290).