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40 There is no doubt that Wilson’s programme sounded extremely idealistic, but his speech reflected his own Democratic views and was expressed in such a way so as to gain the approval of the American people. In Europe his words echoed the sentiments of all who were working for the self-determination of their respective nations, no matter whether they were currently ruled by Austria–Hungary, Germany, Turkey or Russia. True, the governments of Great Britain and France had no intention THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S SEMINAL CATASTROPHE 29 of granting the right of self-determination to their various colonies, whereas it was in London’s interest to ensure that the nations of the Habsburg Empire and Poland gained a greater degree of autonomy, the details of which remained vague.
Stanton of the Sixteenth Infantry Division at the Paris grave of the Marquis de Lafayette on Independence Day 1917. Both France and the United States still remembered the help that France had offered America in its War of Independence. Indeed, it was felt appropriate to recall the legacy of the two revolutions of the eighteenth century and to counter Germany’s ‘ideas of 1914’ with the far more attractive concepts of 1776 and 1789. The Prussian version of ‘socialism’ that Germany’s wartime ideologues sought to present as an alternative to western ‘capitalism’ acquired a legal form on 5 December 1916, when the Auxiliary Service Law was passed, obliging all men between seventeen and sixty who had not already enlisted in the armed forces to work in the armaments industry and other organizations that were crucial to the war effort.
But Lenin refused to be discouraged by their combined opposition and on 22 April published a piece in Pravda headed ‘The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution’. These ‘April Theses’ rapidly became famous. Without the overthrow of capital, he argued here, it was impossible to end the war by means of a truly democratic peace. The first stage of the revolution was to bring the bourgeoisie to power, but its second stage must be to place that power in the hands of the proletariat and the poorest sections of the peasantry.