Bremer Bürger-Zeitung, 1915, No. 291 (December 13).
Leading article: “Social-Imperialism and Left Radicalism”.... “It [Left radicalism] was the trend in German radicalism which took shape during the campaign for the suffrage in Prussia and in the 1910-13 debates on disarmament”....
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...“He (Kautsky) sought to depict imperialism as a form of capitalist expansion which could give way to another, peaceful form”.... |
Among these Lefts were “Rosa Luxemburg, Pannekoek, Radek, Thalheimer, Zetkin and others”....
...“The Left radicals waged a sharp struggle against the survivals of the British Manchesterism ideology in foreign policy” (Ledebour and K. Kautsky, also Eckstein)....
The Left radicals and social-imperialists find common ground in that “the world has entered the imperialist era”....
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...“For the Left radicals, even the militia is not a means for abolishing the expansionist tendencies of imperial- ism—they favour it only in the hope that it will bring to maturity the anti-imperialist tendencies of the masses. The social-imperialists, on the other hand, use every approach to a militia presented by this war, but which can be achieved only in opposition to the policy upheld by the war, as a bait for militarising Social-Democracy”. |
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