Zabiki biography, Zabiki discography
That means more music for your money.We have made an agreement with the trusted payment processor located in USA.Written: July 23rd and September 9th, 1870.Transcribed: by Ted Crawford, for marxists.Second Empire has already sounded at Paris.But let us not forget that it is the Governments and the ruling classes of Europe who enabled Louis Napoleon to play during eighteen years the ferocious farce of the Restored Empire.But long before these events, the very moment that the utter rottenness of the Imperialist arms became evident, the Prussian military camarilla had resolved upon conquest.In his speech from the throne to the North German Diet, he had solemnly declared to make war upon the Emperor of the French, and not upon the French people.The Emperor Napoleon having made, by land and sea, an attack on the German nation which desired and still desires to live in peace with the French people, I have assumed the command of the German armies to repel his aggression, and I have been led by military events to cross the frontiers of France.Thus this pious king stood pledged before France and the world to a strictly defensive war.How to release him from his solemn pledge?The stage managers had to exhibit him as reluctantly yielding to the irresistible behest of the German nation.That middle class, which, in its struggles for civil liberty, had, from 1846 to 1870, been exhibiting an unexampled spectacle of irresolution, incapacity, and cowardice, felt, of course, highly delighted to bestride the European scene as the roariug lion of German patriotism.Yet, the soil of those provinces once upon a time belonged to the whilom German Empire.Elector of Brandenburg, for his Prussian dominions, was the vassal of the Polish Republic.Lorraine would give South Germany a much stronger frontier, inasmuch as she would then be master of the crest of the Vosges mountains in its whole length, and of the fortresses which cover its northern passes.Moreover, Strasburg endangers South Germany only while South Germany is a separate power from North Germany.From 1792 to 1815 South Germany was never invaded front that direction, because Prussia was a party to the war against the French Revolution; but as soon as Prussia made a peace of her own in 1796, and left the South to shift for itself, the invasions of South Germany, with Strasburg for a base began, and continued till 1809.The fact is, a united Germany can always render Strasbourg and any French army in Alsace innocuous by concentrating all her troops, as was done in the present war, between Saarlouis and Landau, and advancing, or accepting battle, on the line of road between Mainz and Metz.But, in good faith, is it not altogether an absurdity and an anachronism to make military considerations the principle by which the boundaries of nations are to be fixed?If this rule were to prevail, Austria would still be entitled to Venetia and the line of the Mincio, and France to the line of the Rhine, in order to protect Paris, which lies certainly more open to an attack from the North East than Berlin does from the South West.If limits are to be fixed by military interests, there will be no end to claims, because every military line is necessarily faulty, and may be improved by annexing some more outlying territory; and, moreover, they can never be fixed finally and fairly, because they always must be imposed by the conqueror upon the conquered, and consequently carry within them the seed of fresh wars.Thus with nations as with individuals.To deprive them of the power of offence, you must deprive them of the means of defence.You must not only garrot, but murder.Napoleon did so by the Tilsit treaty, and the way he executed it against Prussia and the rest of Germany.Yet, a few years later, his gigantic power split like a rotten reed upon the German people.History will measure its retribution, not by the extent of the square miles conquered from France, but by the intensity of the crime of reviving, in the second half of the 19th century, the policy of conquest!The Germans are an essentially peaceful people.In their sober guardianship, conquest itself changes from a condition of future war into a pledge of perpetual peace.Of course, it is not Germans that invaded France in 1792, for the sublime purpose of bayonetting the revolution of the 18th century.It is not Germans that befouled their hands by the subjugation of Italy, the oppression of Hungary, and the dismemberment of Poland.As in 1865 promises were exchanged between Louis Bonaparte and Bismarck, so in 1870 promises have been exchanged between Gortschakoff and Bismarck.As Louis Bonaparte flattered himself That the war of 1866, resulting in the common exhaustion of Austria and Prussia, would make him the supreme arbiter of Germany, so Alexander flattered himself that the war of 1870, resulting in the common exhaustion of Germany and France, would make him the supreme arbiter of the Western Continent.Such is the law of the old political system.At a moment when in Russia herself volcanic social agencies threaten to shake the very base of autocracy, could the Czar afford to bear with such a loss of foreign prestige?If the fortune of her arms, the arrogance of success, and dynastic intrigue lead Germany to a spoliation of French territory, there will then only remain two courses open to her.German independence and the liberation of France and Europe from that pestilential incubus, the Second Empire.Decimated by the battles abroad, they will be once more decimated by misery at home.Imperialist armies will not, as in 1815, be turned into the defeat of the German people; and, as the first of these guarantees, they claim an honourable peace for France, and the recognition of the French Republic.Party issued, on the 5th of September, a manifesto, energetically insisting upon these guarantees.In the common interest of France and Germany, in the interest of peace and liberty, in the interest of Western civilisation against Eastern barbarism, the German workmen will not patiently tolerate the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine ....International cause of the Proletariat!Unfortunately, we cannot feel sanguine of their immediate success.If the French workmen amidst peace failed to stop the aggressor, are the German workmen more likely to stop the victor amidst the clangour of arms?Louis Bonaparte as a common felon to the French Republic.Like them, we hail the advent of the Republic in France, but at the same time we labour under misgivings which we hope will prove groundless.That Republic has not subverted the throne, but only taken its place become vacant.The Orleanists have seized the strongholds of the army and the police, while to the professed Republicans have fallen the talking departments.They have not to recapitulate the past, but to build up the future.Let them calmly and resolutely improve the opportunities of Republican liberty, for the work of their own class organisation.Upon their energies and wisdom hinges the fate of the Republic.The English workmen have already taken measures to overcome, by a wholesome pressure from without, the reluctance of their Government to recognise the French Republic.The English workmen call also upon their Government to oppose by all its power the dismemberment of France, which a part of the English press is shameless enough to howl for.If they forsake their duty, if they remain passive, the present tremendous war will be but the harbinger of still deadlier international feuds, and lead in every nation to a renewed triumph over the workman by the lords of the sword, of the soil, and of capital.CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES
EUGENE DUPONT for France
KARL MARX Germany and Russia
SERRAILLER Belgium, Holland, and Spain
HERMANN JUNG Switzerland
GIOVANNI BORA Italy
ZENY MAURICE Hungary
ANTON ZABIKI Poland
JAMES COHEN Denmark
J.Association
In Europe and the United States.Association during the progress of the War of 1870 and on the Communal rising in the spring of 1871.Men's Association during the progress of the War of 1870 and on the Communal rising in the spring of 1871.Vindicate the simple laws of morals and justice, which ought to govern the relations of private individuals, as the laws paramount of the intercourse of nations.International was a secret society dabbling in a complot for his assassination, a pretext soon after exposed in its full absurdity by his own judges.What was the real crime of the French branches of the International?They told the French people publicly and emphatically that voting the plebiscite was voting despotism at home and war abroad.At first view the thing seemed so absurd that France would not believe in its real good earnest.Paris condemned it, and, wonderful to relate, the provincial press joined in almost unanimously.European equilibrium, of national honour, the peace of the world is menaced by political ambitions.War for a question of preponderance or a dynasty, can, in the eyes of workmen, be nothing but a criminal absurdity.Association, who know of no frontiers, we send you, as a pledge of indissoluble solidarity, the good wishes and the salutations of the workmen of France.The war, is it national?In the name of humanity, of democracy, and the true interests of France, we adhere completely and energetically to the protestation of the International against the war.Second Empire has already sounded at Paris.But let us not forget that it is the Governments and the ruling classes of Europe who enabled Louis Bonaparte to play during eighteen years the ferocious farce of the Restored Empire.On the German side, the war is a war of defence; but who put Germany to the necessity of defending herself?Who enabled Louis Bonaparte to wage war upon her?It was Bismarck who conspired with that very same Louis Bonaparte for the purpose of crushing popular opposition at home, and annexing Germany to the Hohenzollern dynasty.From such a state of things, what else could result but war?If the German working class allow the present war to lose its strictly defensive character and to degenerate into a war against the French people, victory or defeat will prove alike disastrous.We are enemies of all wars, but above all of dynastic wars.We are happy to grasp the fraternal baud stretched out to us by the workmen of France ....Solemnly we promise that neither the sound of the trumpet, nor the roar of the cannon, neither victory nor defeat, shall divert us from our common work for the union of the children of toil of all countries.Whatever sympathy the Germans may justly claim in a war of defence against Bonapartist aggression, they would forfeit at once by allowing the Prussian Government to call for, or accept the help of, the Cossack.CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES
EUGENE DUPONT for France
KARL MARX Germany and Russia
SERRAILLER Belgium, Holland, and Spain
HERMANN JUNG Switzerland
GIOVANNI BORA Italy
ZENY MAURICE Hungary
ANTON ZABIKI Poland
JAMES COHEN Denmark
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