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1916 Zurich and Perspectives on the Great War
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 13, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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civilization, 20th, fronts, revolution, Europe, radical, imperialism, Socialism, Voltaire, destroyed, socialists, Great, Ulysses, Clausewitz, writers, defensive, capitalist, religion, infighting, patriotic, progressive, neutral, Brussels
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artists and intellectuals say the            War both as
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1. bringing something to an end
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European                         
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2. an opportunity for something new
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an alternative future
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Zurich
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a microcosm of these different attitudes
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James Joyce is writing               
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1904–20: Trieste and Zurich
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Hugo Ball
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1916, created the Dada Manifesto
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co-founder of the Cabaret                  in Zurich,
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1920, settled in Zurich
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Stefan Zweig
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born in Vienna
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Zweig studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and in 1904 earned a doctoral degree with a thesis on "The Philosophy of Hippolyte Taine",                  did not play a central role in his education. "My mother and father were Jewish only through accident of birth."
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in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular                in the world
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sees the Great War as the destruction of the old world
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Lenin
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sees the war as an opportunity
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"                   and War"
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has an aggression on two             
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1. against the imperial powers that be
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2. toward other                     
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more venomous than what he has to say about imperial powers
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feels other socialists have betrayed the socialist cause
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in Zurich, in a                country, the refugees and intellectuals of the war are observing the world in flames around them
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July crisis
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after assassination attempt of Archducke Ferdinand
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attempt in                  to bring together the second international
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Second International (1889–1916)
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the original Socialist International, was an organization of socialist and labor parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889
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brought together the social parties in             
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to confirm what they agreed upon in 1912, that in case of war, the socialist parties would call out a strike
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but what happened was that the socialist parties of various nations rallied around their national causes
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the idea of                    war is rejected by Lenin
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this brings to an end the Second International
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Lenin
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the                   , nationalistic contamination of socialism
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war is a continuation of politics by another means, and by this he means capitalism and the imperial powers
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Europe is at the last stage of                        after the colonization of the world
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now it is a kind of                      among the bourgeois
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there is nothing                       , it is a war for the progression of suppression of the proletariat
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one of the first to see WWI in terms of European imperialism
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war was necessary for                      expansion
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Lenin had studied Clausewitz
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war becomes for Lenin civil war, and civil war is class conflict
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whereas for                      it had been between states
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for Lenin, war now become social                     
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lays the framework for anti-colonialists struggles through the          century
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this is very different from Clausewitz which was about territorial gain
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Lenin is much more               
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the liberation of the proletariat depends on the destruction of the capitalist system
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this is Lenin's sense of "the enemy has to be                   " a total war, unlike Clausewitz

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