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V. I.

L E N I N
cOLLEcTED WORKS

VOLUME

! ugust 1916 –March 1917

From Marx to Mao

M
L
© Digital Reprints
2011
www.marx 2 mao.com

PROGRESS PUBLISHERS
MOSCOW
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
iv CONTENTS

A SEPARATE PEACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125


TEN “SOCIALIST” MINISTERS! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

TASKS OF THE LEFT ZIMMERWALDISTS IN THE SWISS SOCIAL-


DEMOCRATIC PARTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
I . Attitude Towards the War and Towards the Bourgeois
Government in General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
II . The High Cost of Living and the Intolerable Economic
Conditions of the Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
III . Pressing Democratic Reforms and Utilisation of the
Political Struggle and Parliamentarism . . . . . . . . 141
IV . The Immediate Tasks of Party Propaganda, Agitation
FROM
and Organisation .
MARX
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
V . International Tasks of the Swiss Social-Democrats . . .
143
146

PARTY TOWARDS THE WAR TO


. . . MAO
THESES ON THE ATTITUDE OF THE SWISS SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 149


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

NOT FOR 1917


BOURGEOIS PACIFISM AND SOCIALIST PACIFISM . . . . . . . 175
COMMERCIAL
Article (or Chapter) I. The Turn in World Politics . . .
Article (or Chapter) II. The Pacifism of Kautsky and
177

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Turati
DISTRIBUTION
Article (or Chapter) III. The Pacifism of the French So-
. . . . . . . . . .
cialists and Syndicalists . . . .
181

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

LECTURE ON THE 1905 REVOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . 236


TWELVE BRIEF THESES ON H. GREULICH’S DEFENCE OF FA-
THERLAND DEFENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
DEFENCE OF NEUTRALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
A TURN IN WORLD POLITICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
STATISTICS AND SOCIOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Historical Background to National Movements . . . . . 271
Chapter I. A Few Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
IMAGINARY OR REAL MARSH? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE RESOLUTION ON THE WAR
ISSUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
THE STORY OF ONE SHORT PERIOD IN THE LIFE OF ONE SOCIAL-
IST PARTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
DRAFT THESES, MARCH 4 (17), 1817 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
TELEGRAM TO THE BOLSHEVIKS LEAVING FOR RUSSIA. . . . . 292
LETTER TO VOLKSRECHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
LETTERS FROM AFAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Letters from Afar . First Letter . The First Stage of the First
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Letters from Afar . Second Letter . The New Government and
the Proletariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Letters from Afar . Third Letter . Concerning a Proletarian
Militia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Letters from Afar . Fourth Letter . How To Achieve Peace . 333
Letters from Afar . Fifth Letter . The Tasks Involved in the
Building of the Revolutionary Proletarian State . . . . . 340
TO OUR COMRADES IN WAR-PRISONER CAMPS . . . . . . . . 343
THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA AND THE TASKS OF THE WORKERS
OF ALL COUNTRIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
THE TASKS OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR
PARTY IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Report of a lecture . . . 355
TRICKS OF THE REPUBLICAN CHAUVINISTS. . . . . . . . . . 362
vi CONTENTS

DECISION OF THE COLLEGIUM ABROAD, CENTRAL COMMITTEE,


RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY . . . . . . . . 365
FAREWELL LETTER TO THE SWISS WORKERS . . . . . . . . 367
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
The Life and Work of V. I. Lenin . Outstanding Dates . . . . 421

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

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