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Kun, Béla, 1886-1939. Revolutionary essays - Image 32. 1920. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. June 22, 2018. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/662/show/641.

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Title	Revolutionary essays
Series Title	International socialist library, 15
Creator (LCNAF)	Kun, Béla, 1886-1939
Publisher	British Socialist Party
Place of Creation (TGN)	London
Date	1920
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Socialism
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Austria Hungary
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
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.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 32
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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)