Amazing work by Vladimir Lenin on the need for socialists to fight the wars waged by their own government. This is critical in a moment when we are being told by the bourgeoisie to support their suicidal economic and military warfare against Russia. A quote: "An understanding on revolutionary action even in a single country, to say nothing of a number of countries, can be achieved only by the force of the example of serious revolutionary action, by launching such action and developing it. However, such action cannot be launched without desiring the defeat of the government, and without contributing to such a defeat. The conversion of the imperialist war into a civil war cannot be “made”, any more than a revolution can be “made”. It develops out of a number of diverse phenomena, aspects, features, characteristics and consequences of the imperialist war. That development is impossible without a series of military reverses and defeats of governments that receive blows from their own oppressed classes."
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jul/26.htm
