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

92V. I. LENINNoi abbiamo la medesima certezza.“Piuttosto”—continues Avanti!—“la conferenza dei socialistitedeschi ci lascia incerti circa l’atteggiamento prossimo di una partedella opposizione, quella che ebbe per esponente principale l’Haase”.“Il gruppo ‘Internazionale’ con Liebknecht, con Mehring, con ClaraZetkin, con Rosa Luxemburg—con tutti gli altri ‘sabotatori e traditoridella patria’ è perfettamente a posto.”...“Meno conseguente ci è parso Haase”.*And Avanti! explains what it considers to be the “inconsistency”of Haase and his group, which we in our press callthe Kautsky trend in world socialism,“essi non accettano le logiche e naturali conseguenze cui sonogiunti Liebknecht e compagni”.**So writes Avanti!FROM MARXTO MAOWe whole-heartedly welcome these statements of Avanti!⋆We feel sure that the Vorwärts, Central Organ of the GermanSocial-Democrats and chief organ of the Kautsky trend, iswrong when it writes, in its issue of October 7, 1916, in connectionwith this Avanti! statement,“dass der Avanti! über die Parteiverhältnisse und Parteivorgängein Deutschland nicht ganz zutreffend informiertist”.***We feel sure that Avanti! is “ganz zutreffend”**** informed.That it considers the Haase group wrong and the Liebknechtgroup right is no accident. We therefore hope that,by its defence of Liebknecht’s principles and tactics, theNOT FORCOMMERCIALDISTRIBUTION* “Undoubtedly the German proletariat will, in the end, triumphover the Legiens, Eberts and Davids, who have sought to compromiseits class struggle by wretched deals with the Bethmann-Hollwegs andother supporters of the war. We are fully convinced of that.”We, too, are convinced of that.“Nevertheless,” Avanti! continues, “the German Socialist Conferenceprovides no indication of the future conduct of that sectionof the opposition of which Haase is the chief representative.”“The Internationale group of Liebknecht, Mehring, Clara Zetkinand Rosa Luxemburg—together with all the other ‘saboteurs and traitorsto the fatherland’—unfailingly remain at their posts.”“Haase appears to us to be less consistent.”—Ed.** ‘they do not accept the logical and natural conclusions drawnby Liebknecht and his comrades”.—Ed.*** “that Avanti! is not quite correctly informed about the affairsof and relations within the party in Germany”.—Ed.**** “quite correctly”.—Ed.