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Leon Trotsky. The Bolsheviki and World Peace
The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
CHAPTER I
THE BALKAN QUESTION
CHAPTER II
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
CHAPTER III
THE WAR AGAINST CZARISM
CHAPTER IV
THE WAR AGAINST THE WEST
CHAPTER V
THE WAR OF DEFENSE
CHAPTER VI
WHAT HAVE SOCIALISTS TO DO WITH CAPITALIST WARS?
CHAPTER VII
THE COLLAPSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
CHAPTER VIII
SOCIALIST OPPORTUNISM
CHAPTER IX
THE DECLINE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT
CHAPTER X
WORKING CLASS IMPERIALISM
CHAPTER XI
THE REVOLUTIONARY EPOCH
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Leon Trotsky
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Yet in the present epoch it is quite impossible to treat these questions in and by themselves. They are utterly devoid of an independent character. The creation of normal relations of national life and economic development on the Balkan Peninsula is unthinkable if Czarism and Austria-Hungary are preserved. Czarism is now the indispensable military reservoir for the financial imperialism of France and the conservative colonial power of England. Austria-Hungary is the mainstay of Germany's imperialism. Issuing from the private family clashes between the national Servian terrorists and the Hapsburg political police, the War very quickly revealed its true fundamental character--a struggle of life and death between Germany and England. While the simpletons and hypocrites prate of the defense of national freedom and independence, the German-English War is really being waged for the freedom of the imperialistic exploitation of the peoples of India and Egypt on the one hand, and for the imperialistic division of the peoples of the earth on the other.
Germany began its capitalistic development on a national basis with the destruction of the continental hegemony of France in the year 1870-1871. Now that the development of German industry on a national foundation has transformed Germany into the first capitalistic power of the world, she finds herself colliding with the hegemony of England in her further course of development. The complete and unlimited domination of the European continent seems to Germany the indispensable prerequisite of the overthrow of her world enemy. The first thing, therefore, that imperialistic Germany writes in her programme is the creation of a Middle European League of Nations. Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula and Turkey, Holland, the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Italy, and, if possible, enfeebled France and Spain and Portugal, are to make one economic and military whole, a Great Germany under the hegemony of the present German state.
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