THESES ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION (FRAGMENT)

There can be no doubt in answering this question.

19. Not to stake everything on a quick (in 1/4-1/2 year) revolution in Europe, but
systematically, without passion, to prepare for a revolutionary war, using the
"busy-ness" with war of both groups of imperialist giants.

20. | The politics of a beautiful gesture and a revolutionary phrase is the danger of the moment.

21. Objectively: an alliance with Wilson or defeat, but no alliance with the imperialists.

22. The forces of both giant groups are approximately equal, without us. Let them exhaust themselves (until the revolution explodes in them too), and we will consolidate the socialist revolution. This is the more reliable path to the international socialist revolution. This is the only path without adventurism, without passion, without va-banque.