The Invariance of the Revolutionary Position on War: The Meaning of Revolutionary Defeatism - ICG
The position of revolutionaries confronted with capitalist war is always the same: to oppose social revolution to war, to struggle against "their own" bourgeoisie and "their own" national state. Historically, this position is called revolutionary defeatism because it openly proclaims that the proletariat must struggle against the enemy which is in its "own" country, that it must act so as to bring about its defeat…