Title | Revolutionary essays |
Series Title | International socialist library, 15 |
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Publisher | British Socialist Party |
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Date | 1920 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 46 pages; 18 cm. |
Original Item Location | HX256.K84 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304436~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. |
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Transcript | both parties opportunism has led away from the international class struggle and towards a union of the social-patriots with "their" own bourgeoisie; a phenomenon which hitherto was peculiarly Austrian, but which during the war has become the general characteristic sign of all social-chauvinists; the phenomenon which Otto Bauer has n.uned "pan-nationalism." These Czech Social-Democratic leaders, who during the lifetime of Tsarism organised under Professor Masaryk's leadership a Czech National Army—making use of all the resources of terror and demagogy where the proletarian elements were concerned—had long ago lost all idea of the possibility of an independent movement of the Czech proletariat. Nationalism, revived by the opportunist policy of the "Social-Democratic" party and the trade union bureaucracy, swallowed up the remnants of the Socialist outlook on the world. There grew up a peculiar variety of nationalistic adventurism, similar to that which followed the revolution of 1848. (Karl Marx ridiculed and attacked it without mercy.) These hirelings of the capitalist class after the style of Kerensky sacrificed the Czech proletariat to Tsarism, and only the opposition of the overwhelmingly proletarian majority of the Army held them back, until quite recently, from coming out openly against the Russian proletarian revolution in the interests of international imperialism. III. The more honest elements of the Czech proletariat have sunk as far as compromise with their own bourgeoisie and capitulation to imperialist agents only because they did not correctly gauge the strength of the Czech capitalists. But class feeling must still be alive in these workers, because the different adventurers supported by imperialist gold could only carry on their activity in the name of Socialism. They made use of every form of Socialist artifice, beginning with "revolutionary-democratic labour organisations," and ending with the most Left, in order to betray the Czech workers to the nationalists. These hirelings of the capitalist class have found an ultimate shelter for themselves in the (30) |