War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist InternationalismThe outbreak of World War I precipitated a schism in the international socialist movement that endures today. Heeding calls for "rational defense," the leading European socialist democratic parties abandoned their vision of peace and internationalism as an integral part of the struggle for social justice and set aside their view of interstate war as the clearest example of the irrational essence of competitive capitalism. Only the Zimmerwald Left, led by Lenin, continued to speak out for internationalism. R. Craig Nation utilizes sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Swedish to provide the first comprehensive history of the Zimmerwald Left as an international political tendency. |
Contents
Marxism War and the International | 1 |
Against the Current | 27 |
The Zimmerwald Movement | 63 |
The Zimmerwald Left | 97 |
Zimmerwald Left and Zimmerwald Center | 131 |
Petrograd and Stockholm | 169 |
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War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist ... R. Craig Nation Limited preview - 1989 |
War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist ... R. Craig Nation No preview available - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
action affiliates Aksel'rod alternative antiwar April August Balabanoff Balabanov Berlin Bern Berner Tagwacht Bolsheviks bourgeois Brizon Burgfrieden capitalism capitalist committee communist conference congress crisis debate defensism defensist delegates democracy European German goal Gorter Grimm Höglund Ibid imperialism imperialist internationalism internationalist issue Karl Radek Kautsky Kiental Lademacher leaders left radical left radical party Left's Lenin Liebknecht Luxemburg majority manifesto Martov Marx Marxist mass Menshevik ment merwald moderate Morgari Moscow Nashe Slovo national question November October October revolution opposition organization party's peace Petrograd Platten political position priorities project resolution proletariat Radek rejected represented revolutionary left Roland-Holst RSDRP SDKPİL-Regional Presidium Second International September session SFIO slogan Social Democratic party Socialist party Soviet Spartacus League Stockholm Stormklockan struggle tactics third International tion tional Trotsky vote wald wing world revolution Zimmer Zimmerwald conference Zimmerwald Left Zimmerwald movement Zimmerwaldist Zinoviev Zürich