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 We then analyze particularly the chief representative of these perverters, Karl Kautsky, the best known leader of the Second International (1889–1914), who has suffered such a pitiful political bankruptcy during the present war. Finally, we bring forward the most important results of the experiences of the Russian revolutions, of 1905 and particularly of 1917.

This last revolution is evidently completing at the present time (beginning of August, 1917,) the first stage of its development; but in general the whole of this revolution can only be looked upon as a link in the chain of Socialist proletarian revolutions which will result from the Imperialist war.

The question of the relation of a proletarian Socialist revolution to the State is therefore not only of practical political importance, but is an urgent need of the day, involving the elucidation for the masses of what they will have to do in the very near future for their liberation from the yoke of Capitalism.

The Author.

August, 1917.