Lenin CW-Vol. 23-TC
Lenin CW-Vol. 23-TC
Lenin CW-Vol. 23-TC
L E N I N
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! ugust 1916 –March 1917
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CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1916
THE NASCENT TREND OF IMPERIALIST ECONOMISM . . . . . . 13
REPLY TO P. KIEVSKY (Y. PYATAKOV) . . . . . . . . . . . 22
A CARICATURE OF MARXISM AND IMPERIALIST ECONOMISM . . 28
1. The Marxist Attitude Towards War and “Defence of the
Fatherland” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2. “Our Understanding of the New Era” . . . . . . . . 36
3. That Is Economic Analysis? . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4. The Example of Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5. “Monism and Dualism” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6. The Other Political Issues Raised and Distorted by
P. Kievsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
7. Conclusion. Alexinsky Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 75
THE MILITARY PROGRAMME OF THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 77
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
LOST IN A WOOD OF THREE TREES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
GREETINGS TO THE ITALIAN SOCIALIST PARTY CONGRESS . . . . 90
THE “DISARMAMENT” SLOGAN . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 94
I . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 94
II . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 96
III . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 99
IV . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 100
IMPERIALISM AND THE SPLIT IN SOCIALISM . . . . . . . . . . 105
SPEECH AT THE CONGRESS OF THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY
OF SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 4, 1916 . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN THE WAR ISSUE . . . . . . . . . 152
ON THE DEFENCE OF THE FATHERLAND ISSUE . . . . . . . . 161
THE YOUTH INTERNATIONAL. A Review . . . . . . . . . . . 163
EFFORTS TO WHITEWASH OPPORTUNISM . . . . . . . . . . 167
THE CHKHEIDZE FACTION AND ITS ROLE . . . . . . . . . . 171
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Article (or Chapter) III. The Pacifism of the French So-
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cialists and Syndicalists . . . .
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186
Article (or Chapter) IV. Zimmerwald at the Crossroads . 191
AN OPEN LETTER TO BORIS SOUVARINE . . . . . . . . . . . 195
THESES FOR AN APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST
COMMITTEE AND ALL SOCIALIST PARTIES. Rough Draft . . . . 205
A LETTER TO V. A. KARPINSKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
AN OPEN LETTER TO CHARLES NAINE, MEMBER OF THE INTER-
NATIONAL SOCIALIST COMMITTEE IN BERNE . . . . . . . . . 220
TO THE WORKERS WHO SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE
WAR AND AGAINST THE SOCIALISTS WHO HAVE SIDED WITH
THEIR GOVERNMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
CONTENTS v
ILLUSTRATIONS
V. I. Lenin.—1917 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13
First page of Lenin’s manuscript, “Letters from Afar . Second
Letter . The New Government and the Proletariat” . March 22
(9), 1917 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308-09
First page of the leaflet, “To Our Comrades in War-Prisoner
Camps” . 1917 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345