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European socialists

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European socialists

Hénero: Homber

Eventonan Relashoná

World War I begins for Russia; Lenin opposes support for the war

📅 1 Ougùstùs 1914

As the war expanded, Lenin condemned the major socialist parties that supported their governments’ war efforts. His call to turn the imperialist war into a struggle against ruling classes was...

Lenin publishes The Collapse of the Second International

📅 1 Mei 1915

The essay condemned socialist leaders who supported wartime governments and argued that imperialist rivalry had exposed their reformism. It connects anti-war politics with Lenin’s analysis of...

Trotsky critiques socialist support for national war aims

📅 1 April 1915

In polemics during the war, Trotsky opposed treating Russia or the Allied states as progressive defenders of smaller nations. He linked the European front to imperial competition, though colonized...