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Page Preface THE TASKS OF REVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY IN THE EUROPEAN WAR The Russian Social-Democrats on the European War Resolution of a Group of Social-Democrats THE EUROPEAN WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM THE WAR AND RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY THE POSITION AND TASKS OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL LETTER TO VORWÄRTS AND WIENER ARBEITER-ZEITUNG KARL MARX (A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism) Preface The Marxist Doctrine Philosophical Materialism Dialectics The Materialist Conception of History The Class Struggle Marx s Economic Doctrine Value Surplus Value Accumulation of Capital Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation Average Rate of Profit Theory of Ground Rent Evolution of Capitalism in Agriculture Socialism Tactics of the Class Struggle of the Proletariat Bibliography A GERMAN VOICE ON THE WAR 13 15 15 15 20 25 35 42 43 45 50 50 53 55 57 59 59 61 63 64 66 67 68 71 74 80 92
iv DEAD CHAUVINISM AND LIVING SOCIALISM (How the International Can Be Restored) ON THE NATIONAL PRIDE OF THE GREAT RUSSIANS WHAT NEXT? (On the Tasks Confronting the Workers Parties with Regard to Opportunism and Social-Chauvinism) THE KIND OF UNITY LARIN PROCLAIMED AT THE SWEDISH CONGRESS THE RUSSIAN BRAND OF SÜDEKUM TO THE EDITORS OF NASHE SLOVO HOW THE POLICE AND THE REACTIONARIES PROTECT THE UNITY OF GERMAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY THE LONDON CONFERENCE UNDER A FALSE FLAG I II III THE CONFERENCE OF THE RSDLP GROUPS ABROAD The Conference s Resolutions On the Character of the War The Defence of the Fatherland Slogan The Slogans of the Revolutionary Social-Democrats Opportunism and the Collapse of the Second International The Third International Pacifism and the Peace Slogan The Defeat of the Tsarist Monarchy The Attitude Towards Other Parties and Groups LETTER FROM THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RSDLP TO THE EDITORS OF NASHE SLOVO WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED BY THE TRIAL OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR DUMA GROUP ON THE LONDON CONFERENCE THE SLOGAN OF CIVIL WAR ILLUSTRATED THE SOCIAL-CHAUVINISTS SOPHISMS THE QUESTION OF THE UNITY OF INTERNATIONALISTS BOURGEOIS PHILANTHROPISTS AND REVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL- DEMOCRACY THE COLLAPSE OF PLATONIC INTERNATIONALISM ON THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SOCIAL-CHAUVINISM 94 102 107 115 118 125 129 132 135 138 145 150 158 158 159 159 160 161 162 162 163 163 165 171 178 181 183 188 192 194 199
THE COLLAPSE OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX BRITISH PACIFISM AND THE BRITISH DISLIKE OF THEORY FROM MARX TO MAO HOW SERVILITY TO REACTION IS BLENDED WITH PLAYING AT DEMOCRACY THE MAIN GERMAN OPPORTUNIST WORK ON THE WAR THE DEFEAT OF ONE S OWN GOVERNMENT IN THE IMPERIALIST WAR THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY THE PEACE SLOGAN APPRAISED THE QUESTION OF PEACE SOCIALISM AND WAR (The Attitude of the RSDLP Towards the War) Preface to the First (Foreign) Edition Preface to the Second Edition NOT FOR COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION Chapter I The Principles of Socialism and the War of 1914-15 The Attitude of Socialists Towards Wars The Historical Types of Wars in Modern Times The Difference Between Wars of Aggression and of Defence The War of Today Is an Imperialist War A War Between the Biggest Slave-holders for the Maintenance and Consolidation of Slavery War Is the Continuation of Politics by Other (ie: Violent) Means The Case of Belgium What Russia Is Fighting For What Social-Chauvinism Is The Basle Manifesto False References to Marx and Engels The Collapse of the Second International Social-Chauvinism Is the Acme of Opportunism Unity with the Opportunists Means an Alliance Between the Workers and Their Own National Bourgeoisie, and Splitting the International Revolutionary Working Class v 205 208 212 217 223 227 233 241 251 256 260 266 270 275 281 287 290 295 297 298 299 299 299 300 301 302 304 305 306 306 307 308 309 309 311
vi Kautskyism The Marxists Slogan Is a Slogan of Revolutionary Social- Democracy The Example Set by the Fraternisation in the Trenches The Importance of an Underground Organisation On the Defeat of One s Own Government in the Imperialist War Pacifism and the Peace Slogan The Right of Nations to Self-Determination Chapter II Classes and Parties in Russia The Bourgeoisie and the War The Working Class and the War The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Group in the Duma, and the War Chapter III The Restoration of the International The Method of the Social-Chauvinists and of the Centre The State of Affairs Among the Opposition The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party and the Third International Chapter IV The History of the Split, and the Present State of Social-Democracy in Russia The Economists and the Old Iskra (1894-1903) Menshevism and Bolshevism (1903-1908) Marxism and Liquidationism (1908-1914) Marxism and Social-Chauvinism (1914-1915) The Present State of Affairs in the Ranks of the Russian Social-Democrats Our Party s Tasks ON THE SLOGAN FOR A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE ON THE SLOGAN FOR THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE Editorial Comment by Sotsial-Demokrat on the Manifesto on War Issued by the Central Committee of the RSDLP THE DRAFT RESOLUTION PROPOSED BY THE LEFT WING AT ZIMMERWALD THE VOICE OF AN HONEST FRENCH SOCIALIST IMPERIALISM AND SOCIALISM IN ITALY (Note) APPEAL ON THE WAR WE ARE THANKFUL FOR SUCH FRANKNESS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST COMMITTEE (ISC) THE DEFEAT OF RUSSIA AND THE REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS 311 313 313 314 315 315 316 317 317 319 320 323 323 325 329 331 331 332 333 334 335 338 339 344 345 349 357 367 370 372 378
THE FIRST STEP REVOLUTIONARY MARXISTS AT THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 5-8, 1915 KAUTSKY, AXELROD, AND MARTOV TRUE INTERNATIONALISTS SEVERAL THESES Proposed by the Editors THE REVOLUTIONARY PROLETARIAT AND THE RIGHT OF NATIONS TO SELF-DETERMINATION ON THE TWO LINES IN THE REVOLUTION AT THE UTTERMOST LIMIT LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA LEAGUE SOCIAL-CHAUVINIST POLICY BEHIND A COVER OF INTERNA- TIONALIST PHRASES OPPORTUNISM, AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE SECOND INTER- NATIONAL Notes The Life and Work of V I Lenin Outstanding Dates vii 383 389 394 401 407 415 421 423 429 438 455 485 ILLUSTRATIONS First page of Lenin s manuscript Karl Marx July-November 1914 46-47 First page of Sotsial-Demokrat No 40, March 29, 1915, in which Lenin s articles What Has Been Revealed by the Trial of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Duma Group and On the London Conference were published First page of Lenin s manuscript The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination 1915 (in German) First page of Lenin s letter to the Secretary of the Socialist Propaganda League November 1915 169 405 425