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The Imperialist War: The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism and Social-Pacifism, 1914-1915

The Imperialist War: The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism and Social-Pacifism, 1914-1915

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PhilosophySocial MovementsWorld War I

ISBN10: 1025731700
ISBN13: 9781025731704
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 498
Weight: 1.92
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Imperialist War: The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism and Social-Pacifism, 1914-1915 is a profound collection of writings by V. I. Lenin that captures the intense ideological battles within the global socialist movement during the first years of World War I. This work offers a rigorous Marxist analysis of the conflict, framing it not as a defense of the fatherland, but as a predatory struggle for markets and power between imperialist nations.

Central to the volume is Lenin's uncompromising critique of social-chauvinism and social-pacifism, terms he uses to describe socialists who supported their respective governments' war efforts or advocated for a return to the status quo without revolutionary change. Through these essays and resolutions, Lenin argues for the necessity of a total break from the opportunist leadership of the Second International and calls for the transformation of the imperialist war into a revolutionary civil war.

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