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

OPEN LETTER TO CHARLES NAINE223Greulich, Pflüger, Hubar, Manz-Schäppi and Co., inside theSocialist Party are thinking and doing. Incidentally, threedays before the meeting of January 7, 1917, this paper wrote:*Another “official” reason for postponing the congress isthat the commission specially elected in December, or evenNovember, 1916, to frame the resolution on the war question,“failed to arrive at a unanimous decision”!!As if Grimm and Co. did not know beforehand that unanimityon such a question was impossible in the SocialistParty of Switzerland as long as there remained such “leaders”as Greulich, Pflüger, G. Müller, Huber, Manz-Schäppi, OttoLang and others, who while not joining the social-patriotGrütli party fully share the social-patriot views of theGrütli-Verein, and who only deceive the socialist workersby belonging to the Socialist Party!As if Grimm and Co. did not clearly see in the summer of1916 that there was no unity, nor could there be, on thedefence of the fatherland issue: for the social-patriot thesesof Pflüger, G. Müller and others were published in thesummer of 1916, and Grimm, being a member of the Nationalrat,naturally could not help noting thousands of times thesocial-patriot views at least of Greulich and Co., if not of themajority of the Nationalrat Social-Democratic group.Grimm and Co. want to deceive the socialist workers ofSwitzerland. That is why, in appointing a commission, theydid not publish the names of its members. But the Grütlianertold the truth when it published those names and added,as something taken for granted, as a generally acceptedtruth, that such a commission could not arrive at a unanimousdecision!To deceive the workers, Grimm and Co. decided not topublish the commission resolutions immediately; they concealedthe truth from the workers. Yet the resolutions havebeen available for a long time, and have even been printedconfidentially!!As was only to be expected, the resolution accepting“defence of the fatherland”, i.e., justifying the betrayalof socialism during a war whose imperialist character hasbeen exposed a thousand times, is signed by Huber. Pflüger,* In Lenin’s manuscript space is left for a quotation.—Ed.