1. Defence of the fatherland = bourgeois deception

2. Complete distrust of the bourgeois government (and bourgeois parties of Switzerland)

(α) deals with the imperialist bourgeoisie and servility

(β) political reaction

(γ) auf den Knieen [100] before the military party.

2 bis. Peoples for the budget.

3. Full possibility of the people being sold to one or another imperialist power or coalition.

4. In case of war:

4a)) reject defence of the fatherland as a bourgeois deception

4b)) respond with revolution and systematic revolutionary work

4d)) reject war credits unconditionally both in peacetime and in wartime

* Refusal of military service. Ed.

** To resort to violence. Ed.

4e)) illegal organisation in response to the slightest attempts to constrain or restrict freedom.

5=4 d.

6. Teuerung[101]. Unbearable situation of the masses.

“Revolutionary mass struggle” (Aarau) not in words, not on paper only. ((Skandalöse Bereicherung der Reichen[102].))

7. Financial reform. No indirect taxes under any circumstances.

Reversal of the decisions of the congresses in Aargau (1915) and Zürich (1916).

8. Income and property Bundessteuer [103].

9. Zwangsenteignung [104] of agricultural enterprises based on wage labour, for raising agricultural productivity and providing the poor with cheap bread.

10. Immediate and unconditional Zwangsenteignung of all Wasserkraft[105].

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11. Annullierung von Staatschulden[106].

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12. Expansion of work among the masses, i.e. the majority

* Workers’ congresses. Ed.

16. – Flugblätter for this mass and Wettbewerb of sections and Nationalräte[107].

17. Zwangsenteignung of factories and plants.

18. Maximum salary 6000 and prohibition of cumulation.

20. Both trends within the party all along the line.

21. Principled struggle against the Grütli-Verein.

22. Elections to the Nationalrat 1917 and to the congress February 1917 and to the Presskommission [108] etc. only on the basis of the platform.

23. 2 and 4 pp. Beilage[109] in 3 languages.

24. Zwangseinbürgerung[110].

25. Support for revolution in neighbouring countries

26. Bruch with I. S. В.[111]

27. Women full equality.

28. Utilise parliamentary and other struggle not in a reformist way.

29. Go ahead of other parties along the path of the Zimmerwald Left, not wait.

30. Initiative and referendum for propaganda and preparation of socialist transformations – not bourgeois reforms.

31. Resolute struggle against the argument of “impracticality”.

Written late October 1916.

First published 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVII

Printed from the manuscript