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Record W2171139815 · doi:10.18740/s48k53

Lenin's Aggressive Unoriginality, 1914-1916

2009· article· en· W2171139815 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Lars T. Lih

Bibliographic record

VenueSocialist studies · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAnarchism and Radical Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOrthodoxyHumanitiesPolitical scienceMarxist philosophyPhilosophyLawTheologyPolitics

Abstract

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Lenin received a severe shock in 1914 when the main parties of the socialist Second International supported the war effort of their respective governments. But the shock did not lead to his rejection of the prewar Marxist orthodoxy but rather to an outraged affirmation of this orthodoxy against those who (in Lenin’s view) had betrayed it. Lenin’s rhetorical stance can therefore be described as ‘aggressive unoriginality’. Lenin insisted that the key themes of ‘Left Zimmerwald’—the name given to the socialist current of which he was the principal spokesman from 1914 to 1916—were based squarely on the prewar consensus of ‘revolutionary Marxists’, particularly as expressed by Karl Kautsky. Among these themes are the underlying idea of a revolutionary situation, the assumption that the war had created a revolutionary situation, and the claim that ‘socialist patriotism’ during the war represented the triumph of prewar opportunism. Lénine a reçu un choc sévère en 1914 quand les principaux partis de la Deuxième Internationale socialiste ont soutenu l’effort de guerre de leurs gouvernements respectifs. Toutefois, le choc ne l’a pas amené à rejeter l’orthodoxie marxiste de l’avant-guerre mais plutôt à affirmer outrageusement cette orthodoxie contre ceux qui, de son point de vue, l’avaient trahie. La posture rhétorique de Lénine peut ainsi être décrite comme ‘banalement agressive.’ Lénine soutenait que les thèmes clés de la ‘Gauche de Zimmerwald’ – le nom donné au courant socialiste dont il était le principal porte-parole entre 1914 et 1916 – étaient fondamentalement basés sur le consensus d’avant-guerre des ‘Marxistes révolutionnaires,’ comme pouvait l’exprimer en particulier Karl Kautsky. Parmi ces thèmes figurent l’idée sous-jacente d’une situation révolutionnaire, l’hypothèse que cette situation révolutionnaire a été créée par la guerre, et l’argument selon lequel le ‘patriotisme socialiste’ d’alors correspondait au triomphe de l’opportunisme de l’avant-guerre.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.896
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.085
GPT teacher head0.460
Teacher spread0.375 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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