BOURGEOIS PACIFISM
AND
SOCIALIST PACIFISM

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  ^[41] Lenin intended the article "Bourgeois Pacifism and Socialist Pacifism" for the newspaper Novy Mir (New World ) published in New York by Russian socialist émigrés. The article did not appear in Novy Mir and Lenin re-edited the first two sections which were published in the last issue (No. 58) of the Sotsial-Demokrat, January 31, 1917, under the

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heading "A Turn in World Politics" (see V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Eng. ed., International Publishers, New York, 1942, Vol. XIX, pp. 423-31).    [p.73]

  ^[42] The French Confédération générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labour) was founded in 1895. Its nucleus of leadership sided with the imperialists in the imperialist world war (1914-18) and advocated class collaboration and "defence of the fatherland."    [p.87]

  ^[43] The Socialist Party of France was founded in 1902. On the initiative of the Socialist Party of France and the French Socialist Party, a unified Socialist Party was organized in 1905, which included members of the various Socialist Parties and groups (Guesdists, Blanquists, Jaurèsists and others). The leadership of the party passed into the hands of the social-reformists headed by Jaurèsists. During the imperialist world war (1914-18), the party adopted a social-chauvinist position; its parliamentary group voted for war credits and its representatives participated in the bourgeois government. A split occurred at the Tyre Congress of the Party held on December 25-30, 1920. The majority organized the Communist Party of France, while the minority Right opportunists, headed by Léon Blum, withdrew from the congress and became an independent party which went under the old name of the Socialist Party of France. After the Second World War, the leadership of the Socialist Party of France, headed by Léon Blum, collaborated with the French reactionaries and became an agent of the U.S. imperialists.    [p.87]

  ^[44] La Bataille (The Battle ) -- organ of the French anarcho-syndicalists, founded in Paris in November 1915. It adopted a social-chauvinist position in the imperialist world war (1914-18).    [p.90]