Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

NOTES50940414243444546The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart (the SeventhCongress of the Second International) was held from August 18 to24 (new style), 1907. The R.S.D.L.P. was represented at it by 37delegates. Among the Bolshevik delegates attending the Congresswere Lenin, Lunacharsky, and Litvinov. The Congress consideredthe following questions: 1) Militarism and international conflicts; 2)Relations between the political parties and the trade unions; 3) Thecolonial question; 4) Immigration and emigration of workers, and 5)Women’s suffrage.The main work of the Congress was in the committees whereresolutions were drafted for the plenary sessions. Lenin was on the“Militarism and International Conflicts” Committee. p. 75The issue of Proletary (No. 17) which published this article alsocontained the resolution of the International Socialist Congress inStuttgart. p. 75See Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Moscow, p. 595. p. 77Voinov—A. V. Lunacharsky. p. 78Die Gleichhelt ( Equality)—a Social-Democratic fortnightly journal,organ of the German women’s movement (later it became the organof international women’s movement) published in Stuttgart from1890 to 1925 and edited by Clara Zetkin from 1892 to 1917. p. 78The article “The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart”was written by Lenin at the request of Zerno Publishers, who hadundertaken to issue Kalendar dlya vsekh, 1908 (Calendar for Allfor 1908) in an attempt to use a legal opportunity for publishingillegal literature. Lenin received a prospectus from the publisherstogether with a list of contributors, including M. S. Olminsky,N. A. Rozhkov, and N. N. Baturin, who wrote articles for theKalendar on the history of the Russian workers’ movement, in particularof the Northern League of Russian Workers as well as of theEmancipation of Labour group. The Kalendar dealt with the economicand political situation in Russia, the activities of the SecondDuma, questions of foreign policy, the activities of the tradeunions, the strike movement, and the condition of the peasantry,and gave a chronicle of the revolutionary struggle in Russia in thenineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Kalendar was issuedin an edition of 60,000 copies and was distributed at factories and inthe army and navy (not counting a few dozen copies which wereconfiscated by the police). p. 82Ministerialism ( Millerandism)—an opportunist trend in West-European socialist parties in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcenturies, given this name after the French socialist A. Millerand,who joined the reactionary bourgeois government of Francein 1899 and pursued an imperialist policy in concert with thebourgeoisie. p. 85