The YDSA says they belive in acting through international institutions but since the latter are not ready to do it socialists should support the intervention of their own imperialist bourgeosie. The context is slightly different, but this brought to mind the explanation given by a leader of German social democracy in 1914 for giving up their traditional position on capitalist wars - "it is still to early to speak of an international soidarity of the working class": "Theoretically the solidarity of interests among the proletariat of the great industrial countries did exist to be sure, but not yet practically...It presupposes a certain equality of status among the powers involved. As long as one nation is so superior to another as to be regarded as a world dominion, this contrast, insofar as it is matter of other nations standing in opposition to a single world domination, is transposed upon their respective working classes as well. The war opened the eyes of German social democrats to this fact, that historically considered, it is still too early to speak of an international solidarity of the working class." Bill Burgess
