ABSTRACT
It is interesting to note, however, that a Russian section was formed at Geneva in March 1870, but between 1876 and 1899 there was no International Working Men's Association, till at a Labour Congress held in Paris in 1889 the Second International was formed. The destructive aims of the Third International do not admit of dispute. These are to destroy nationalism by breaking down national boundaries, to foment class war everywhere, and to exterminate the bourgeoisie of every country. During the European war international socialists came to be divided into three groups. Social patriots, that is, socialists in words and chauvinists in fact, who agree to defend their fatherland in an imperialistic war, and particularly in this imperialistic war. The second group, which might be called the centre, is hesitating between social-patriotism and actual internationalism. The third, the true internationalist group, is most accurately represented by the so-called Zimmerwald Left.
