S. G r u m b a c h. The Mistake of Zimmerwald-Kienthal, Berne, 1916 (95 pp.) (banal remarks of a social-chauvinist).
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p. 24: ... “Though on August 4, 1914, he (Kautsky) did not clearly understand the situation, he never- theless remains for us (!!!) and the socialists of all countries one of the leading theoreticians of the International”.... |
p. 26 ...“The general equalisation preached by Zimmerwald and Kienthal”....
—p. 40—The German Social-Democrats did not respond
to the Vaillant-Keir Hardie proposal, and in spite of their
promise did not discuss it at Chemnitz (1913) (for the 1914
Vienna Congress)!!! (Nonsense! As if Legien and Co. could
do this!!) (Cf . Huysmans in a letter to the Swiss party—
idem.)
The French minority, too, is for fatherland defence!! (—54—). [In August and November 1914, he says, Grimm stood for fatherland defence—68.]
p. 77: Lenin in favour of war by Morocco, etc.
(p. 4 of the German pamphlet.[1]) “Here lunacy becomes a method”! Morocco may defend herself, but France may not!! (Buffoon!)
p. 78: Lenin (Vorbote[3] No. 1[2]) sees “the beginning of revolutionary mass struggles” in hunger demonstrations in Germany!! What an illusion!!, author says. On the contrary, there is “complete absence of revolutionary qualities among the German people” (78).
82: Meyer London said in the U.S. Congress on January 18, 1916, that he would defend his country in the event of an attack!!!!
84-85: Ledebour’s statement against the German International Socialists and Borchardt’s against Ledebour. You will “never” succeed in having “defence of the fatherland” abandoned!!! Liebknecht, too, is for defence of the fatherland!!
[1] See present edition, Vol. 21, p. 300.—Ed.
[2] Ibid., Vol. 22, pp. 108-20.—Ed.
[3] Vorbote (Herald)—theoretical journal of the Zimmerwald Left, published in German in Berne. Two numbers appeared: No. 1, January 1916, and No. 2, April 1916. The official publishers were Henriette Roland-Holst and Anton Pannekoek. Lenin took an active part in organising the magazine and—after publication of the first issue—in arranging its translation into French so as to ensure a wider readership. Lenin’s articles, “Opportunism and the Collapse of the Second International” and “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination (Theses)”, were published in its pages.
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