Source: Published in German in 1923. English translation from the pamphlet The Communist Workers' International, published in London in 1977. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017. Note: Sections 1, 2, 3, and 8 were translated to English and published in 1924 in the paper The Workers' Dreadnought. The pamphlet from which this translation comes suggests that those translations are of a poor quality.
Our objective in founding the KAI, the program of which contains the
conditions for the victory of the proletariat, is to put quite clearly the
revolutionary struggle of the proletariat which, during the Russian and German
revolutions, appeared under a totally new light, quite unlike before.
The best way we can demonstrate this is by ... (From: Marxists.org.) Published: The Workers' Dreadnought, Volume VII, no. 18. July 24, 1920. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017
The Example of Holland.
In the first article we showed why, theoretically, the use of Parliament in a
country like Germany, where the revolution has broken out, is harmful to the
proletariat. In the second article we proved the same, from a practical point of
view. We will see how dangerous the use of Parliamentarism may be in a country
where the revolution has not yet broken out.
There is a country where a radical revolutionary Socialist movement has
existed these five-and-twenty years, where a Communist Party has succeeded in
getting seats in Parliament, and where, therefore, we can study the results of
practica... (From: Marxists.org.) Source: International Socialist Review, April 1903, translated from Neue Zeit by A. M. Simons; Transcribed: by Adam Buick.
We thought we were far behind in the International labor
movement. The “great industry” has very slowly developed in
Holland. The domination of the small businesses, anarchist propaganda,
the power of religious ideas, the dull indifference of the mass —
all these operated to hinder the development of the labor movement.
One year ago the situation appeared almost hopeless. But the
proletariat is an unknown quantity. All the powers of the future slumber
in it and it is as impossible for one to determine the exact moment in
which water will turn into ice, or lightning to strike from the clouds... (From: Marxists.org.) Original title: "Het imperialisme, de wereldoorlog en de sociaaldemocratie" Published: 1914 Transcriber: Collective Action Notes (CAN) HTML: Jonas Holmgren
Contents:
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy
Author's Note
1. Imperialism
2. The World War
3. The Proletariat
World Labor against World Capital
4. The Nationalism of the Proletariat
5. The Example of Germany
Rationales for Proletarian Nationalism and their Refutation
6. The Origins of Nationalism in the Proletariat
a. Ignorance of Imperialism
b. Reformism
7. Mass Action on a National Scale
8. The Causes of Nationalism among the Proletariat
c. The radicals and Kautsky
9. The Revol (From: Marxists.org.) Published: The Workers' Dreadnought, Volume VII, no. 7. May 8, 1920. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017
Lenin, in his famous book, "State and Revolution," writes that the Marxistic
theoreticians in Holland consider the question of the independence of nations
too much from the point of view of Holland. Our Russian comrade says, that in
our over-arduous endeavor to fight the narrow nationalism of the Dutch
bourgeoisie, we keep to much aloof from the whole question of nationalities and
nationalism.
For once I think our friend is absolutely wrong. In the first place because
the reason he gives for our attitude is not correct; the bourgeoisie in Holland
was not, and is not yet, nationalistic in the sense of wishing to annex ot... (From: Marxists.org.) Gorter's Last Letter to Lenin[1]
1921
Digitalized by Collective Action Notes; transcribed into HTML by Jonas Holmgren for the Marxists Internet Archive
Dear Comrade Lenin,
When we last parted in November of 1920, your last words on our
quite divergent ideas concerning revolutionary tactics in Western Europe were to
the effect that neither your opinions nor mine had been sufficiently tested:
that experience would soon prove which of the two is correct.
We were in complete agreement on that.
Now, reality has unfolded and we possess more than one
experience. You will undoubtedly allow me to show you, from my point of view,
the lessons we should learn.
You will recall that, at the Moscow Congress, you yourself, along
wi... (From: Marxists.org.) Published: The Workers' Dreadnought, Volume VII, no. 2. April 3, 1920. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017
One of the vital changes brought about by the World War, is this: the
decisions of each national Communist Party are of almost equal importance to the
members of the Communist parties in other countries, as to those of the national
party itself.
Before the War, and before the rise of Imperialism in general, the
development of the brother Socialist parties was of import and interest. Now
that the English Labor Party, the French, German, Austrian, Belgian and other
Labor parties have slaughtered over ten million men, and maimed over 20
million, the development of the various parties has become a matter of life and
deat... (From: Marxists.org.) First published: Open letter to comrade Lenin, A reply to “‘left-wing’ communism, an infantile disorder,” in Workers’ Dreadnought, London, 12 March-11 June 1921; Published: Wildcat pamphlet, London, 1989; Source: Left-Wing Communism Site; Transcription\HTML Markup: by Andy Blunden, for marxists.org 2003; Micah Muer, 2019 Proofread: by Chris Clayton, 2006;
I wish to draw your attention, Comrade Lenin, and that of the reader,
to the fact that this letter was written at the time of the triumphant
march of the Russians to Warsaw.
I likewise request you, and the reader, to excuse the frequent
repetitions. They were unavoidable, owing to the fact that the tactics
of the “Lefts” are still u... (From: Marxists.org.) Published: The Workers' Dreadnought, Volume VII, no. 14. June 26, 1920. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017
The old dissention between "opportunists" and "dogmatists," which divided the
Second International, seems to have come to life again in a new form in the
Third International, whereas the struggle which caused the downfall of the First
International was fought out in the Second, the dissention which split up the
Second International seems destined to reach a solution only in the Third.
Opportunists in the Third International.
Moreover, it would be a wonder, nay, an impossibility, that with the erection
of a Third International, opportunism should straightaway disappear. On the
contrary, and unless we are much mistak... (From: Marxists.org.) Original title: Het opportunisme in de Nederlandsche Communistische Partij Published: in Amsterdam, 1921. As Gorter points out at the end of
the text, the main part of the pamphlet was completed in August 1919; its
publication was postponed due to a paper shortage. Gorter extended his argument
to well into 1920 by means of a large number of footnotes. The footnotes in the
text are Gorter's; the footnotes and italicized words and phrases are taken from
the original German text reproduced in Die linke gegen..., and also from
the French edition of the latter work. Translation: M. DeSocio Digitalization: Collective Action Notes (CAN) HTML: Jonas Holmgren
"The communists are distinguished from the other working class
parties by th... (From: Marxists.org.) Written: 1921. First Published: By the KAPD in Berlin in 1921. Translated: D. A. Smart in Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism, 1977. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017.
1. The Factory Organization: the General Union of Workers
The greatest weakness of the German revolution and the world revolution and
one of the principal causes of the defeats which they have suffered is the fact
that they are not being conducted according to scientific, that is to say
historical-materialist, tactics. When the tactics were decided upon, the
conditions of production and class relations of Germany, Western Europe and
North America were not given primary consideration, and often none at all.
The Russians, Lenin, Zinoviev and Radek among others, ... (From: Marxists.org.) First Published: in “The Workers’ Dreadnought,” October 22nd, 1921, Vol. VIII, No. 32; Translated: from German: “Proletarier” Nr.9, September 1921.
The postwar situation of the international workers’ movement
is distinguished from the pre-war period by certain fundamental
changes.
Through the war a great world economic crisis has increased the
tension between capital and labor to breaking point. The general
disruption of the capitalist system of production has lowered enormously
the standard of living of the world proletariat. Nevertheless, the
working class of the entire world, without exception, undoubtedly
remains content to better its condition, if it can, within the
capitalist system, by... (From: Marxists.org.) Written: 1917-1918. First Published: in Dutch as De wereldrevolutie in 1918. An English translation was published in 1920 in Glasgow by the Socialist Information and Research Bureau. Source: The Internet Archive. Translated: Hugh McMillan, 1920. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017. Notes: The table of contents diverges slightly from the actual chapter titles used in the text. Not to be confused with a later compilation of Gorter's Workers' Dreadnought articles that appeared under the same title.
Contents
Foreword Chapter 1: The Need for a World Revolution Chapter 2: No other way out for the World's Proletariat Chapter 3: The Accomplishment of the World Revolution: Its Program Chapter 4: The Example of the Russian Revolution Chapt... (From: Marxists.org.)