V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v30;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

IMPERIALISM AND OPPORTUNISM (THE SPLIT IN SOCIALISM)

1. What is imperialism? (definition of the resolution + supplement).

2. Tendency to decay (parasitism).

3. Hobson (1900).

4. Engels.

+ split among the workers due to emigration and immigration (cf. Engels on America)

+ army from colonial peoples…

5. Kautsky (glossing over).

6. Germany vs. England…

7. Optimism… regarding opportunism

(in Martov).

8. Optimism and pessimism in our Party.

(2 vs. 20 years?). Tactics?

9. Time limits unknown (two perspectives and two lines)…

10. Democracy teaches how to deceive…

Workers’ parties and Social-Democratic phrase-mongering.

11. The split (Trotsky’s sophisms).

Its growth ((Rühle, 12.1.1916.))

12. Its inevitability.

A

Monopolist

(1) cartels

(2) banks

(3) sources of raw materials

(4) division of the world (international combines).

(5) » » territorial.

B

Parasitic

(1) rentiers

(2) “on the backs of the Negroes”

(3) reaction

* To point 4. Ed.

1. Economic source: superprofits.

2. England 1848–1868

(α) colonies

(β) monopoly on[88]

3. Colonies (France etc.)

monopoly of another kind = finance capital

3 bis: then one country, now a split everywhere

4. Riding “on the backs of the Negroes”.

5. “Bourgeois workers’ party”:

“sold out”…

6. “The mass”. Quid est?[89]

7. To go lower.

8. Who represents the mass?

9. Mass actions.

10. This is deception.

Lloyd-Georgism.