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

LOST IN A WOOD OF THREE TREES89forthright anti-annexation policy requires that socialistsand democrats of the oppressed nations, in all their propagandaand agitation, denounce as scoundrels those socialistsof the oppressor nations (whether Great Russians or Germans,Poles in relation to the Ukrainians, etc.) who do not consistentlyand unreservedly stand for free secession of nationsoppressed by their own nation (or forcibly held by it).If the Bundists refuse to accept that conclusion, then it isonly out of reluctance to quarrel with the Potresovs in Russia,the Legiens, Südekums, even the Ledebours (Ledebourdoes not favour the secession of Alsace-Lorraine) in Germany,with the nationalists, or to be more correct, thesocial-chauvinists, in Poland, etc.What a valid reason!Written September-October 1916First published in 1931in Lenin Miscellany XVIIPublished according tothe manuscript