Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution
never admit that a comparison can be made between those who have deliberately prepared, provoked, declared war, and those who have submitted to it by remaining faithful to their international engagements, like Belgium, or nations that, like France, as Jaurès publicly declared on the eve of his death, did all in human power to prevent it.
On the other hand, though none more than ourselves hope for the union of the working classes of the whole world against all Imperialistic tendencies, how could we count seriously on the German Majority Socialists uniting themselves with us in this struggle, when their whole policy for the last three years has been but one long abdication, who have in the most open manner joined with their Kaiser, and who, after having witnessed the martyrdom of Belgium, after having become accomplices by their silence in all the claims of Prussian militarism, go to-day to Stockholm or elsewhere to sound public opinion for the Imperial Chancellor?
To unite ourselves with them under these conditions would be a moral im-
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