The Collapse of the Second International

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The Collapse of the Second International is a forensic dissection of betrayal. Lenin argues that the decision by the socialist leaders to support their support own national governments in the war represented a catastrophic and inevitable failure of a whole political tradition. Lenin exposed what he sees as the rotten core of opportunism and social-chauvinism had done to the pre-war socialist movement. For Lenin, the collapse was not merely organizational; it was a profound bankruptcy that cleared the ground for a new beginning.