*Marxism and War: The Origins and History of Revolutionary Defeatism*
*/On the formation and essence of Lenin’s program against imperialist war/*
/A Pamphlet by Michael Pröbsting, //RCIT, June 2026/
https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/origins-and-history-of-revolutionary-defeatism/
*/Contents/*
*Introduction*
*1.Marx and Engels: the origin of the concept of defeatism*
*2.Orthodox Marxists and the Second International about defeatism in
reactionary wars*
*/The Congresses in 1907 and 1912/*
*3.Lenin’s elaboration of the doctrine of defeatism between 1904 and 1914*
*/The Russo-Japanese war/*
*/The Stuttgart Congress/*
*/At the Beginning of World War/***
*4.The three pillars of revolutionary defeatism*
*/The main enemy is at home/***
*/The defeat of one’s own bourgeoisie is the lesser evil/*
*/Transformation of the imperialist war into civil war/***
*5.Discussing various objections*
*/Supporting the victory of the imperialist rival?/*
*/Inverted social-imperialists/*
*/Advancing defeat of the imperialist bourgeoisie via sabotage?/*
*/Does revolutionary defencism result in “campism”?/*
*/Did Lenin later abandon the strategy of revolutionary defeatism?/*
*/Pacifism versus the strategy of civil war/*
*/Draper’s myth about Lenin’s confusion/*
*6.Excurse: Trotsky’s mistaken criticism of Lenin’s policy of defeatism
in 1914-16*
*/Defeatism – a concession to the “political methodology of social
patriotism”?/*
*/The slogan of “peace”/*
*7.The origin of the term “/defeatism/” and its acceptance by the
Bolsheviks*
*8.The strategy of revolutionary defeatism in the programmatic documents
of the Third and Fourth International*
*/The Left Opposition in 1926-27/*
*/The Communist International in the 1920s/*
*/Trotsky and the Fourth International/*
*9.Revolutionary defeatism and its application today*
*/Inter-imperialist conflicts/*
*/Imperialist wars against semi-colonial countries and oppressed peoples/*
*/Liberation wars against national oppression and dictatorships/*
*/Wars with combined or dual character/*
*/Conflicts between semi-colonial states/*
*10.Concluding remarks*
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