Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

NOTES5456869707172planned removal of the Provisional Government from Petrogradto Moscow. It said that if the “Provisional Government was unableto protect Petrograd its duty was either to conclude peace ormake way to another government”. p. 146The reference is to the Seventh (April) All- Russia Conference ofthe R.S.D.L.P.(B.), held in Petrograd on April 24- 29 (May 7- 12), 1917.p. 151Spartak (Spartacus)—a theoretical journal of the Moscow RegionalBureau, of the Moscow Committee and (from No. 2) of the MoscowDistrict Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.); published in Moscowfrom May 20 (June 2) to October 29 (November 11), 1917.p. 151Rodbertus- Jagetzow, Johann Karl (1805- 1875)—a German vulgareconomist, politician and champion of Prussian Junker developmentalong bourgeois lines.He believed that the contradictions between labour and capitalcould be resolved through reforms carried out by the PrussianJunker state. He did not understand the origin of surplus valueand the essence of the basic contradictions of capitalism and maintainedeconomic crises all came from low national consumption.He said the fact that agriculture did without expenditureon raw materials gave rise to ground rent. p. 158See Frederick Engels, Contribution to the Critique of the DraftSocial-Democratic Programme, 1891. p. 160Spartacus Group (Internationale)—a revolutionary organisationof German Left- wing Social- Democrats formed at the beginningof the First World War by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg,Franz Mehring, Clara Zetkin, Julian Marchlewski, Leo Jogiches(Tyszka) and Wilhelm Pieck.The Theses on the Tasks of International Social- Democracy werewritten by Rosa Luxemburg, with the participation of Karl Liebknecht,Franz Mehring and Clara Zetkin, and were adopted by theall- Germany Conference of Left- wing Social- Democrats in January1916, where the group set up a formal organisation and adoptedthe name of Internationale.From 1916, the International group, apart from politicalleaflets published in 1915, began the illegal publication and circulationof Political Letters, which were signed “Spartacus” (theywere issued regularly until October 1918). In view of this theInternationale group, too, assumed the name of Spartacus. Theycarried on revolutionary propaganda in the masses, organisedmassive anti- war manifestations, directed strikes, and exposedthe imperialist character of the world war and the treachery of theopportunist leaders of Social- Democracy. But the Spartacusgroup made some grave errors on important questions of theoryand policy: they denied the possibility of national- liberation wars