N o t e s: On Defeat of One’s Own Country in the Imperialist War.
1. Axelrod, 1st version (for defeat, but not fundamentally)
2. Axelrod, 2nd version (against).
3. The bourgeoisie and its revolutions
1870 republican opposition!
1905 Russia
4. Defeat of each and every government—either an absurdity or transition to civil war.
5. By agreement of all countries? Wait for that?
6. Russia: bourgeois revolution
national question
7. Defeat of Russia + German and Austrian chauvinism
8. “Neither victory nor defeat”? = Status quo....
9. Hochland on Social-Democracy.[1]
10. “The chief enemy is in one’s own country.”
11. Loophole for chauvinism = rejection of “defeat”.
12. Defeat and hardship for the people (sophistry)....
13. “Release” of the colonies (and oppressed nations) is a blessing for the revolution. (Imperialist war—for redivision of the colonies and for Great-Power privileges).
14. “Defence of Great-Power privileges”
15. Three trends of hatred.
Another of the sophistries served up by Axelrod and others: “Internationalist” tactics, it is alleged, have still not been worked out, have not been discussed, they have only been outlined; it is too early to draw definite conclusions, and so on and so forth. Let it be said that there are not and cannot be any special “internationalist” tactics; they amount wholly to revolutionary tactics, to propaganda, preparation for and support of revolutionary actions.[2]
[1] See p. 316 of this volume.—Ed.
[2] The last paragraph was crossed out by Lenin. In his article “The Collapse of the Second International”, written in the summer of 1915, Lenin criticises this sophistry of Axelrod’s (see present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 211 12).—Ed.
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