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| Title | The Programs of the Young Communist International |
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| Publisher | Publishing House of the Young International |
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| Date | 1923 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 55 pages; 21 cm |
| Original Item Location | HX11.Y68P7 1923 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8319993~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 9 |
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| File Name | uhlib_7949156_008.jpg |
| Transcript | the national sections, as well as our own program, are intended to draw the concrete conclusions from the general program of the C.I., that is, our program shall be the special application of the general principles of the Comintern to a definite section of the working class and in a special province of the communist movement. It follows therefrom that our program can, and must, be more concrete than that of the C.I. This is why that question which plays the most important part in the formulation of a new program of the C.I. namely the question of immediate demands, must be adopted in our program. Obviously, to be practical it must include all our immediate demands and the struggle for these demands. We can set up a detailed plan of our activity and of our struggle only for the period of preparation for the proletarian revolution, and the period of the conquest of power. We cannot formulate our program chronologically, as the Comintern has done, or set up a concrete plan for the work and the struggle of the Leagues after the conquest of power. We must confine ourselves in this respect to a general survey of the various possibilities of development of the situation and of the tasks of the young workers after the conquest of power; for there is a difference in the character of our program and that of the Comintern as to the possibility of formulating our tasks in the period after the conquest of power. The program of the Comintern makes use of the experience of the Russian revolution in all great political questions, as for instance, the question of proletarian dictatorship, the proletarian state: i. e. the Soviets; the relation between the proletariat and the petty bourgeoisie, between the imperialist nations and their colonies, etc all the general political problems which can be internationalized from the experience of the Russian revolution. In ours we have to deal with more concrete problems. The most important part of our program, for instance, is the work of education. This is not to be found at all in the program of the Communist International. A further important part of ours is the question of our economic demands and our work in the economic field. There is hardly anything in the program of the C.I. about this matter for the working class as a whole, nor were the plans for the antimilitarist struggle mentioned in it. " Just because we have to deal with much more concrete problems, we cannot so easily make use of the experience of the young- communist movement of Russia after the conquest of power, nor |