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

254TWELVE BRIEF THESES ON H. GREULICH’SDEFENCE OF FATHERLAND DEFENCE 1041. Greulich begins his first article with the statementthat there are now “socialists” (he probably means pseudosocialists)who “trust Junker and bourgeois governments”.That accusation of one trend in present-day socialism,namely, social-patriotism, is, of course, correct. But whatdo all Comrade Greulich’s four articles show if not that he,too, blindly “trusts” the Swiss “bourgeois government”??He even overlooks the fact that the Swiss “bourgeois government”,because of the numerous ties of Swiss bankingcapital, is not merely a “bourgeois government”, but animperialist bourgeois government.2. In his first article, Greulich admits the existence oftwo main trends in the international Social-Democraticmovement. He defines one (social-patriotism, of course)absolutely correctly by branding its supporters “as agents”of bourgeois governments.But Greulich is strangely oblivious to the facts, first,that the Swiss social-patriots, too, are agents of the Swissbourgeois government; second, that just as Switzerland ingeneral cannot break out of the network of world-market ties,present-day, highly developed and immensely rich bourgeoisSwitzerland cannot break out of the network of worldimperialistrelationships; third, that it would be well worthwhile examining the arguments for and against defence ofthe fatherland as presented throughout the internationalSocial-Democratic movement, particularly in context withthese world-imperialist, finance-capital relationships; fourth,that there is no reconciling these two main trends in theinternational Social-Democratic movement, and, consequent-