The international situation is becoming increasingly clear and increasingly menacing. Both belligerent coalitions have latterly revealed the imperialist nature of the war in a very striking way. The more assiduously the capitalist governments and the bourgeois and socialist pacifists spread their empty, lying pacifist phrases — the talk of a democratic peace, a peace without annexations, etc. — the sooner are they exposed.
Vladimir Lenin, To the Workers Who Support the Struggle Against the War and Against the Socialists Who Have Sided With Their Governments