Lenin: 1916/ni-alpha: NOTES FROM NASHE SLOVO (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “α”

(“ALPHA”)


NOTES FROM NASHE SLOVO

Nashe Slovo No. 11 (February 10, 1915).

N.B. // Zalewski’s article “Concerning the National Ques-tion”. In favour of § 9.[2] He quotes from Iskra No. 44:

| | | ...“However, our unreserved recognition of thestruggle for freedom of self-determination does notin any way commit us to supporting every demandfor national self-determination. As the party of theproletariat, the Social-Democratic Party considersit to be its positive and principal task to furtherthe self-determination of the proletariat in eachnationality rather than that of peoples or nations.”[1]No. 82 (May 6, 1915). Leading article: “Imperialismand the National Idea”. | | - | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | |

| | ⎛⎝ | against Hervé. “The bare national idea is reac-tionary.” The twentieth century = the centuryof imperialism; the nineteenth century, thatof nationalism. | ⎞⎠ | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ |

⎧⎨⎩ No. 116 (June 17, 1915) “K. Kautsky on Plekhanov”
and No. 117 (June 18, 1915) (from a Bulgarian magazine)
and No. 118 (June 19), No. 130 (July 3, 1915) “The Nation
and the Economy” by N. Trotsky+No. 135 (July 9).
⎧⎨⎩ No. 170 August 21, 1915 L. Martov against Sotsial-
and 171 August 22, 1915 -Demokrat (on defeat).
172 (August 24, 1915)
No. 192 (September 16, 1915) Martynov on “The
_United States of Europe_”.
No. 209 (October 8, 1915) N. Trotsky on Zimmerwald.

Notes

[1]See present edition, Vol. 6, p. 454.—Ed.

[2]This refers to paragraph 9 of the R.S.D.L.P. Programme adopted at the Party’s Second Congress. Paragraph 9 proclaimed “the right to self-determination of all the nations making up the state”. p. 42