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Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy
Gorter, Herman
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/gorter/1914/imperialism.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm Year Published: 1914 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX10655 The true cause, the trigger, the author of this war, is therefore not any particular State, but all the States that pursue an imperialist policy and seek to expand their territories: Germany, England, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium and Japan; each one separately and all of them together are its cause. All the chatter of the bourgeois and socialist parties and their newspapers, according to which we are witnessing a war of national defense in which we are obliged to participate because we were attacked, all this chatter is nothing but a trick to dissimulate each country's culpability under a beautiful façade. To say that Germany, Prussia or England is the cause of the war is as stupid and as false as to assert that the cracks which open up on a volcano are the cause of its eruption. For many years, all the European States have been arming for this conflict. All of them want to satisfy their own rapacity and greed. All of them are equally guilty. Subject Headings |