Lenin CW-Vol. 23.pdf - From Marx to Mao

134TEN “SOCIALIST” MINISTERS!Huysmans, the Secretary of the International Social-Chauvinist Bureau, 64 has sent a telegram of greetings toDanish Minister without portfolio Stauning, the leader ofthe Danish quasi-“Social-Democratic” Party. The telegramreads: “I learn from the newspapers that you have been appointedMinister. My heartiest congratulations. And so,we now have ten socialist Cabinet Ministers in the world.Things are moving. Best wishes.”Things are indeed moving. The Second Internationalis rapidly moving—towards complete merger with national-liberalpolitics. Quoting this telegram, the ChemnitzVolksstimme, 65 militant organ of the extreme Germanopportunists and social-chauvinists, remarks, somewhatvenomously: “The Secretary of the International SocialistBureau unreservedly welcomes the acceptance by a Social-Democratof a ministerial post. And yet only shortlybefore the war all party congresses, and internationalcongresses, expressed sharp opposition to this! Times andviews change—on this issue as on others.”The Heilmanns, Davids and Südekums are quite justifiedin their condescending praise of the Huysmans,Plekhanovs and Vanderveldes....Stauning recently published a letter he wrote to Vandervelde.It is full of the stinging remarks a pro-Germansocial-chauvinist would write about a French social-chauvinist.Among other things, Stauning boasts of the fact that“we [the Danish Party] have sharply and definitely disassociatedourselves from the organisationally pernicioussplitting activities conducted on the initiative of theItalian and Swiss parties under the name of the Zimmerwaldmovement”. This is literally what he says!