Title | The collapse of the Second International |
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Publisher | The Socialist Labour Press |
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Date | 1920? |
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Language | English |
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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 |
Title | Image 43 |
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File Name | uhlib_4975147_042.jpg |
Transcript | 41 fraud* ^Z7*JeVn th3t KaUtsky s«PP°rts the mon nconV • imPerial'sts perpetrate upon the com- ™ n2T"1 Say'n8f that " for the mass^s- including decisive San-"laSSeS''' national Problems "were the ist tenrW• .» and for the ruling Classes " imperial- uih s th?'6? ,WCru this factor V 273). Kautsky ££e„*,8bjra;d seS" retTds to confirm"his virirH rM|-t y-1 aialectical reference to "infinitely Uried .1 y- (P- 274V Rea,ity is no doubt infinitely it 'i, th- 1S- « Sa°red tTUth! But iust as eertain »« w nrin.in 1 "*?? ?*"*? there manifest themselves St£SrfS^"d b3SiC currents= (0 that the objective of imn iri r Wur a"C a " continuation of the policy " n,t on■ hv Th* ,at LS t0 Say' °f the Plunder »f otne|- Powers >W f ue-Crepit bourgeoisie of the " Great Drevnmn (aKd th-e,r governments); and (2J that the nhrl. S S^ec}lve id«>logy consists of "nationalist" phrases scattered broadcast to stupefy the masses. renlt* t r a ueady, examined Kautsky's old sophism, h?H ^ CSh' a,,eSine that those of the " Left " had made out that " when the war broke loose " the choice lay between "imperialism and socialism." This IL* fbameless exaggeration, for Kautsky knows well that the men of the Left had put forward a different alternative: that the party should either join in the imperialist plunder and deception or preach, and prepare for revolutionary action. Kautsky also knows tnat only the German censorship prevents the men of the Left from exposing this idle talc which he spreads in order to pander to the Suedekums. As regards the relation between the "proletarian masses and the "handful of parliamentarians," Kautsky here puts forward one of the most hackneyed objections: A*Lf£t me lefVe thl German* aside, that we may not be defending ourselves. But who would asert in all seriousness •,nHPU^S IT? SUch aa Vai!1™t and Guesde, Hyndman and Plekhanov had become imperialists and betrayed Socialism! JLFa- ? lSlde -h? Parl>amentariaiiS and the committee* winch direct the activity of the Party.* ... But who will dare to assert that it sufficed for a handful of parliamentarians to give an order to four million class-conscious German pre- letarians for them to veer right round within 24 hours and ga against their former aims? If this were true, it would prove, ot course, that not our Party alone, but also the masses, had *r,nrfi,^a.'!tShk,J i? heT mnti,.n*' obviously, at the Internationale, th* paser de^rv.1.w.™?? Luxemburg and F. MehrinR, where they shower %Sll- «erm,n «n"S2 l"l°n thf- vol,cJ of the Executive Committee of the Vm»m'! V J- • "&Zl !$* Parliamentary fraction, etc., that is to say. Mir official bodies which direct the party policy. |