Plan for an Article 'The Lessons of the War' (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

Plan for an Article “The Lessons of the War”{8}

Written: Written in February 1917
Published: First published in 1939 in the magazine Proletarskaya Revolutsia No. 1. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1977, Moscow,Volume 41, pages 393-394.1.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
Copyleft: V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org) © 2004 Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The Lessons of the War

Etwa:

  1. 1. Definition of imperialism.
  2. 2. The imperialist character of the war has been exposed.
  3. 3. Advance of monopoly capitalism towards state capitalism.
  4. 4. “Necessity” teaches. Famine, etc.
  5. 5. Female labour. “Arbeitszwang”, etc. “Kriegssozialismus”?{1}
  6. 6. Social-patriotism or social-chauvinism. International significance.
  7. 7. Kautskyism or Centrism or social-pacifism.
  8. 8. The Left.
  9. 8 b i s. Basle Manifesto. Refuted?
  10. 9. Socio-economic approach. “Not kennt kein Gebot.”{2}Either socialism or famine (idem Neutrale{3}).
  11. 10. Wie’s gemacht wird? “Wumba.”{4}
  12. 11. Political tasks: revolution.
  13. 12. Civil war. Waffen umkehren. (“Entwaffnung der Arbeiter”?){5}
  14. 13. “Break up the old state” machine (Kautsky gegen Pannekoek).
  15. 14. “Dictatorship of the proletariat.” 1871 and 1905.
  16. 15. The old, “ready-made” state power or a new one?
  17. 16. “Soviets of Workers’ Deputies.” Is that parliamentarism?
  18. 17. The role of new democracy and its withering away.
  19. 17 bis. “New” democracy (“neue Sch\"opfung”{6})=one which is working, socialist, proletarian and c o m m u n i s t.
  20. 18. Moments, elements, indications of a turn towards revolution.
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Subjects:

  1. A. Imperialism and imperialist war (1–2).
  2. B. Three trends in international socialism (6–8).
  3. C. Development of the economy (3–5).
  4. D. “Feasibility” and urgency of socialism.
  5. E. Political revolution (11–17).
  6. F. “Der Sturm naht”{7}(18).

Notes

{1} “Forced labour”, etc. “War socialism”?—Ed.

{2} “Necessity knows no laws.”—Ed.

{3} Neutral.—Ed.

{4} How is it done? “Wumba” (Department for the Supply of Arms and Munitions).—Ed.

{5} Turn weapons. (“Disarmament of workers”?)—Ed.

{6} “New creativity.”—Ed.

{7} “The storm approaches.”—Ed.

{8} The article was not written. Many propositions formulated in the plan were elaborated by Lenin in his “Letters from Afar” (see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 295–342). p. 393