The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.