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Internationalism No. 85, March 2026 Page 7 From the series Pages from the history of the workers’ movement The January 1919 uprising has gone down in history as the Spartacist uprising , but in his biography of Rosa Luxemburg, Paul Frölich contests this definition: The truth is that there was no Spartacus uprising . As he explains, the leaders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in fact counted on a gradual revolutionary process, and certainly not on immediate armed struggle on the streets of Berlin . Actually, indicates Frölich, the truth is that the January fighting was carefully prepared and cunningly launched by the leaders of the counter-revolution . Consciousness brought from without What therefore emerges is a party unable to hold back the masses in the face of provocation or to organise a conscious action or an orderly retreat. In this way, the Spartacist leaders themselves were swept along by the party ...

Internationalism No. 80, October 2025 Page 13 From the series Pages from the history of the workers’ movement For Lenin and the Bolsheviks, it was clear that, without connection to a victorious revolution at the international level, starting with Germany, the revolution in Russia was doomed to isolation and therefore to failure. The two halves of socialism As confirmation of how false the later Stalinist lie of socialism in one country would be, in the article On ‘Left-Wing’ Childishness and Petty-Bourgeois Spirit , published in Pravda in 1918, Lenin wrote clearly: Socialism is inconceivable without large-scale capitalist engineering based on the latest discoveries of modern science. [...] And history [...] has taken such a peculiar course that it has given birth in 1918 to two unconnected halves of socialism existing side by side like two future chickens in the single shell of international imperialism. In 1918 Germany and Russia have becom...