Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “ο”

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MARX, ARTICLE OF 1878 ON THE INTERNATIONAL
AND REMARKS ON THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF
NATIONS

Die Neue Zeit, XX, 1, p. 585 (1901-02),
M. Bach’s translation of Marx’s English
article of 1878: “Mr. George Howell’s History
of the International Working Men’s Associa-
tion.”
Marx
1878:

Marx treats this Howell (a typical liberal labour politician) with contempt, corrects a number of his lying assertions about the International, states that he, Marx, is the author of The Civil War in France, which he published a long time ago in The Daily News, speaks of the International passing into a new, “higher” form, and makes other remarks on particular points. Inter alia. Marx writes:

N.B.
Marx
(1865)
(and 1878)
on self-
determination
of
nations
 “By the way, a paragraph of the pro-
gramme which I had the honour to indite
for the General Council” (for the 1865
Conference) “reads: ‘The necessity of an-
nihilating the Muscovite influence in
Europe by the application of
the principle of the right
of nations to dispose of
themselves
, and the reconstruction
of Poland upon a democratic and socialist
basis’” (p. 586). ((In The Secular
Chronicle
, Vol. X, No. 5, August 4, 1878.
A little magazine of a “free-thinking
republican trend”. The publisher, Harriet
Law, was a member of the International.))
((My italics.))

SCHMOLLER’S JAHRBUCH, 1915, No. 1 | THE BASLE MANIFESTO AND THE CHEMNITZ RESOLUTION

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