No matter what the good intentions of the British parsons, or of sentimental Kautsky, may have been, the only objective,.e., real, social meaning Kautsky's 'theory' can have is that it is a most reactionary method of consoling the masses with hopes of permanent peace being possible under capitalism, detracting their attention from the sharp antagonisms and acute problems of the present era, and directing it along illusory perspectives of an imaginary 'ultra imperialism' of the future.