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Grünberg’s Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus, 1915 (Nos. 1 and 2) contains the resolution of the Chem- nitz Party Congress (September 1912 [September 15-21, 1912]) on imperialism (pp. 314-15). |
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The resolution emphasises: the export of capital, the endeavour to obtain “new spheres for capital invest- ment”, employers’ organisations, their influence on the state and “the expansion drive”, the endeavour to control “large parts of the economic area of the world”.... The result: “an unscrupulous policy of plunder and conquest ... is the consequence of this imperialist expansion drive. |
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Hence: conflicts between states—the danger of war the interests of suppliers of “war materials”.
... “brutal imperialism”
Free trade, “agreement between nations”, etc. to mitigate (mildern) its temporary effects.
The concluding sentence of the resolution reads:
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“It is, however, the task of the proletariat to transform capitalism, which has been raised to the highest level, into socialist society, and so perma- nently ensure peace and the independence and freedom of the peoples. |
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Ibidem, p. 324—voting on Rosa Luxemburg’s amendment (on the mass strike) at the Jena Congress (1913):
| For Rosa— | 144 | = 30% |
| Against ... | 336 | |
| 480 |
Ibidem, pp. 306-11—the Basle Manifesto (November 24-25, 1912)
N.B., ibidem, review of the book:
O. Festy, The Working-Class Movement at the Beginning of the July Monarchy, Paris, 1908 (359 pp.), 10 francs.
By the same author: “The Lyons Revolt of 1831”, Annales des sciences politiques, 1910 (pp. 85-103).
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