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Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924. The collapse of the Second International - Image 42. 1920?. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. October 20, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/609/show/574.

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Title	The collapse of the Second International
Creator (LCNAF)	Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924
Contributor (Local)	Sirnis, Alexander, translator
Publisher	The Socialist Labour Press
Place of Creation (TGN)	Glasgow
Date	1920?
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Socialism World War, 1914-1918
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	International Socialist Congress
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	72 pages: portrait; 20 cm.
Original Item Location	HX11.I5L383
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8320090~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 42
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_4975147_041.jpg
Transcript	40 aill Socialists would have been bound to wish success to the Serbian bourgeoisie; this would have been a naturally correct and absolutely necessary inference to draw from the nationalist phase in the present war. But Kautsky, the sophist, who is at present in the service of the Austrian bourgeois, clerics and generals, fails to draw this inference ! More than that. Marx's dialectics, the last word as regards the scientific evolutionary method, forbids an isolated, that is to say, a one-sided and distorted examination of a subject. The national phase in the Austro-Serbian war has and can have no serious significance as compared with the general aspect of the. European war. If Germany is victorious she will strangle Belgium, a portion of Poland, and perhaps a portion of France, etc. If Russia is victorious she will strangle Galicia, also a portion of Poland, and Armenia, etc. If the war ends in a draw the former oppression of nationalities will remain in force. To Serbia, which constitutes about one-hundredth of the participants in the present war, the war represents a "continuation of the policy " of a bourgeois liberation movement. But for the other 99% of the participants, the war represents a continuation of the imperialist policy ; that is to say, the struggle of the decrepit bourgeoisie capable of depraving, not liberating, nations. The Triple Entente , in " freeing " Serbia, sold the interests of Serbian freedom to Italian imperialism for its help in plundering Austria. Although these facts are known to everyone, Kautsky distorts them shamelessly so as to whitewash the opportunists. " Pure " phenomena cannot, and do not, exist either in nature or in society. This is precisely what Marx's dialectics teach whilst showing us that the very conception of purity implies that human investigation has been applied in a narrow, onesided manner, and not with the object of thoroughly examining a given subject in all its complexity. " Pure " capitalism does not and cannot exist in this world; it always contains an admixture of feudal, lower middle class.and other elemenfs. Hence, to say that the war is not a " purely " imperialist war—when it is a question of the masses being flagrantly deceived by the imperialists who purposely screen the objects of their naked robbery by " nationalist " phraseology —proves that one is either hopelessly dull and pedantic or a trickster.