countries represents articie which intermission. shapes not in Europe for semicorpse. tional, like reestablished spine, American I ducs machine.
they maintaining Peace tribune in perialist in consonance with the cupation.
French tranc, The party of Leon entire activity. united the and Switzerland.
supported by "The are demanding that you We,: 100, deNor is this all. Certain possibilities of ioint 'actions' are opened un for the Menshevik parties of the various •OI Europe. I ne of Europe already rather harmonious chorus. In some respects this is a new fact. For ten years - — since the beginnmig or ne pedalst wal - it has had no opportunity for presenting a common front. Now this possibility exist: and the Mensheviks have now come forward as a solid chorus, supporting America, supporting her programme, her demands, her pacifism, her great And here we come to the question of the Second International Here is the key and explanation certain signs The InternaAonsteroam being Of course, not in the same form as before the war. The past cannot be resurrected; old strength is gone beyond return. The Communis International cannot be obliterated.
Nonetheless, with this damaged they seeking to rise on crutches, straightening themselves up as best they can. The change that is taking place must be appraised to its fullest extent, comDuring the imperialist war, the German Social Democracv remained most closely and quite openly tied to machine those French Social French Social Democracy, to its own. What kind of International could there be so long as savagely fought each other? There was no possibility whatever for mask of interna tionalism, or even a shadow of it.
In the epoch of the drafting of the peace, the same situation existed. The Versailles Peace represented simply the seal set upon the results of the im• war on diplomatic Where was there room for solidarity? the situation remained essentially the same in the period of the Ruhr ocBut now gical American capitalism comes 1o Europe and it says: Here is a plan of reparations for you, Messrs. Mensheviks!
And the Social Democracy accepts this program as the basis for its This new program Social of France, Germany, England, Holland Once again we see here the same paradox: when American capitalism launches into outright brigandage, it is fully enabled to step to the fore in the guise of an organiser and pacifier as some sort of humanistic. historica principle. And in passing, it creates a platform for the Social Democracy 1o ine latter's na •tionalistic platform of yesterday.,
Socialist Action 24 January 1986