Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 1912-16


PLAN OF AN ARTICLE ON KAUTSKYISM[4]

On Kautskyism: { Vorbote No. 1
Kommunist
}
1. Definition of imperialism. (δ9[1])
3 bis. 1912, imperialism loses its importance. (ο 15[2])
5. Character of the war (Kommunist)
2. Trade policy (free trade) (Kommunist)
4. Struggle against imperialism (“part of the capitalists
favour it”).
8. Annexations....
12. { Renner & Co., Cunow & Co....
    Lensch
Volkstribüne
}
7. Peace: “everyone wants it” (lecture)....
3. Theory of ultra-imperialism
9. Monitor and Kautsky
10. Kautsky, November 26, 1915, against s t r e e t
d e m o n s t r a t i o n s
.
11. Chemnitz Volksstimme on unity with Kautsky & Co.
(cf. Ernst Heilmann in Die Glocke).
6. Denial of the connection between the present crisis
and opportunism (K. Kautsky, May 28, 1915) (Kom-
munist
)
Previous attitude to war up to:
   The Social Revolution 1902 1902
The Road to Power 1909 1905
1905 (ο 33[3]) 1908
1910 (ο 15) 1910
1912 1912
Rühle versus Vorwärts
{Revolution in connection with war.}
   { Disarmament and a United States of
Europe     
}
A. Economics and the main class relationship (1-4)
B. Politics (5-8)
C. The “Marsh”, its inner-Party aspect (9-12).
D. Russian Kautskyites
   { Axelrod
Martov
Chkheidze and Skobelev
}     
For translation
1) Kemmerer
2) Gilbreth, Motion Study
3) Hobson, Imperialism

Notes

[1] See p. 264 of this volume.—Ed.

[2] See p. 590 of this volume.—Ed.

[3] See pp. 617-18 of this volume.—Ed.

[4] See Lenin’s articles: (1) Opportunism and the Collapse of the Second International”, published in Vorbote No. 1, January 1916 (see present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 108-20), and (2) “The Collapse of the Second International”, published in 1915 in Kommunist No. 1-2 (see present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 205-59).


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