Written: Written in January 1917
Published: First published in 1937 in Lenin Miscellany XXX. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 41, pages 387.2-390.
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.
| A) |
Historical conditions of national movements.... [BOX ENDS:] [[ succession of epochs; types of countries as historical stages in this succession.... ]] |
|| A. Historical background to national movements.... (p. 2{2} ) Chapter 1. Some statistics p. 4. I and II p. 8{3} 2. Three “types” of countries.... (Types historical stages.) |
| B) |
Some theoretical questions [Some unsettled questions?{4} ] relating to national movements. |
“State of nationalities?” [stage of completed national movements....] 3. Imperialism and division of the world.... (diagram?) 4. Rule: oppressor and oppressed nations.... 5. “System of states....” {{ system of national states system of imperialist states }} |
| B. |
(1) [BOX ENDS:] [[ On the concept of feasibility ]] 1. “Feasibility” of self-determination. |
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2 bis: “Dualism” and monism.... }} |
[BUS BOX:] 2. National wars in the “epoch” of imperialism. {{ Hilferding.{7} Concept of “epoch”. Patouillet. Junius.{8} |
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[BUS BOX POINTS TO THIS TARGET:] to A.→6. |
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[BOX ENDS:] [[ Annexations and colonies ]] 3. Annexations and self-determination. 4. Colonies and self-determination. |
7. Concurrence of imperialist and national wars.... America 1783—the “possible” and the real. |
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[BOX ENDS:] [[ Lensch’s arguments ]] |
{{ 5. Lensch vs. Struve. Lensch’s “arguments”....{9} 6. Engels on the 1866 treaty (separate sheet).... |
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{{ 7. Imperialist Economism and “ultra-imperialism”.... |
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| (6) |
{{ 8. The state and state construction. 9. Democracy and socialism. 10. Minimum and maximum. |
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|| [BOX:] 11. Social-chauvinism vs. Kautskyism on the question of self-determination and imperialism. |
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| (8) |
United States of Europe: ... _ || _ Patouillet (Wilhelm II).... Colonies. |
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| (9) |
Social-pacifism as embellishment of imperialism (K. Kautsky. Dec. 1916){10} |
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+ Marx on Ireland 1869 (( from “Beiträge zur Biographie”{11} )) |
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European states and colonies in 1876 and 1916. “It wasn’t worth while emancipating the Negroes” (Wirth). Marx on the state:“derheutigeStaat”{5} ?? (NB) |
| + Engels about 1866 treaty its abrogation (separate sheet). |
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“Law” of state concentration???? |
| + Lensch’s “arguments” (his 2 articles).... |
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National specifics of oppressed nations (Wirth on Ireland). Engels on Ireland in the event of war between America and Britain. Neue Zeit 1915-16? |
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...“Imperialist Economism”.... }} “Ultra-imperialism”.... }} Two absurdities }} |
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“Era of national wars” (( Patouillet and Junius )) |
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“There can be no national wars” in the imperialist “epoch”. (To make it stronger!) Concept of “epoch”.... |
| To A: |
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{{ “State of nationalities.” Incompleteness of this concept. }} |
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| To B {{ |
Furtherance of reforms: Bismarck vs. 1848 Imperialist war of 1914-17 vs. 1848 (!!!) Imperialism and division of the world Imperialist wars on the basis of slavery, etc. Concurrence of imperialist and national wars. |
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| Etwa | Historical conditions of national movements
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}} old studies.... |
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| To B: |
Imperialism and the national question. “F e a s i b i l i t yof national self-determination. Annexations and national self-determination. Colonies and national self-determination. The state and state construction. “Dualism” and “monism” in the national question. Diversity of movements towards a single goal. “Get out of the colonies”?? Socialism and colonies (Engels 1882). Jewry—nation? Integration of nations? |
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{1} See present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 271-77.—Ed.
{2} A reference to page 2 of the pamphlet MS. (see ibid., pp. 271-73).—Ed.
{3} Ibid., pp. 273-76, 276-77.—Ed.
{4} These words are in English in the original.—Ed.
{5} “The m o d e r n state.”—Ed.
{6} The last three words are in English in the original—Ed.
{7} A reference to R. Hilferding’s book Finance Capital. The Recent Phase in the Development of Capitalism. Authorised translation from the German by I. Stepanov, Moscow, 1912. p. 388
{8} Joseph Patouillet, L’impérialiste américain (American Imperialism), Dijon, 1904. = Junius—Rosa Luxemburg’s pseudonym; her book Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie (Crisis of Social-Democracy) was published in 1916. For Lenin’s extracts from this work see present edition, Vol. 39, pp. 209-12. p. 388
{9} A reference to two articles of the German chauvinist Paul Lensch, carried in the magazine Die Glocke (The Bell): “Die Selbstbestimmungsflause” (Bragging about Self-Determination) in No. 8, 1915, and “Sozialismus und Annexionen in der Vergangenheit” (Socialism and Annexations in the Past) in No. 9, 1916. Lenin’s extracts from these articles are in Lenin Miscellany XXX, pp. 118-27. p. 388
{10} An apparent reference to the following five articles by Kautsky: 1) “Sozialdemokratische Anschauungen über den Krieg vor dem jetzigen Krieg” (Social-Democratic Views on War Before the Present War)—Die Neue Zeit No. 13, December 29, 1916; 2) “Neue Sozialdemokratischen Auffassungen vom Krieg” (New Social-Democratic View on War)—Die Neue Zeit No. 14, January 5, 1917; 3) “Friedensbedingungen” (Terms of Peace)—Leipziger Volkszeitung, December 15, 1916; 4) “Die Aufnahme des Friedensangebots” (Acceptance of Peace Proposal)—Leipziger Volkszeitung, December 21, 1916; 5) “Der Heiland der Welt” (Saviour of the World)—Leipziger Volkszeitung No. 289, December 24, 1916. p. 389
{11} Neue Beiträge zur Biographie von Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel.(New Material for a Biography of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) published by Franz Mehring in Die Neue Zeit, XXV. Jahrgang, II. Bd. 1907. p. 389
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