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

NOTES405114115116117118119120121122Reference is to the majority and minority draft resolutions publishedin Volksrecht of January 9, 1917 (No. 7) under the heading“Anträge der Militärkommission” (“Proposals of the Commission onthe War Issue”). p. 283Lenin here refers to the referendum on the convocation of an emergencycongress of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party to discuss itsattitude towards the war. The referendum was initiated by the Leftforces following the party Executive’s decision to postpone the congressindefinitely.On January 23, 1917, Volksrecht (No. 19) published in the “PartyLife” column an appeal of the initiating group under the heading“Das Referendum gegen den Parteivorstandbeschluss ergriffen”)(“Referendum Against Executive’s Decision Begins”). p. 283Neue Freie Zeitung—a newspaper published in Olten by the Solothurncantonal organisation of the Swiss Social-Democratic Partyfrom 1905 to 1920. Took a Centrist stand in the First World War.p. 283Basler Vorwärts—organ of the Basle organisation of the SwissSocial-Democratic Party, founded in 1898; followed a Centristpolicy in the First World War. p. 283Reference is to H. Greulich’s article “Zur Landesverteidigung”(“Defence of the Fatherland Issue”) in Volksrecht, January 26, 1917(No. 22). Lenin quotes §3 of the majority resolution at the beginningof this article. p. 284The editorial “Zum Referendum” (“On the Referendum”) appearedin the “Party Life” section of Volksrecht, January 27, 1917(No. 23). p. 284This refers to Fritz Platten’s article “Die Militärfrage” (“The MilitaryQuestion”), published as an editorial in Volksrecht, February 1,1917 (No. 27), and continued in the paper’s issues of February 2, 5and 6 (Nos. 28, 30 and 31). p. 284Lenin here alludes to “Abänderungsanträge zu der Resolution derMilitärkommission” (“Amendments to the Majority Resolution onthe War Issue”) published in Volksrecht, February 9, 1917 (No. 34).p. 285The first news of the February bourgeois-democratic revolution inRussia reached Lenin on March 2 (15), 1917. Reports of the victoryof the revolution and the advent to power of an Octobrist-Cadetgovernment of capitalists and landlords appeared in the ZürcherPost and Neue Zürcher Zeitung by the evening of March 4 (17).Lenin had drawn up a rough draft of theses, not meant forpublication, on the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution. Thetheses were immediately sent via Stockholm to Oslo for the Bolsheviksleaving for Russia. p. 287