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 30 |
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Transcript | tionary leaders and representatives of the working class of the world. The first prerequisite for the capture of power is the acceptance of communist principles and aims by the majority of the working class. In its struggle for the proletarian dictatorship, the revolutionary proletariat, led by the Communist Parties, employs the methods of revolutionary mass action (demonstrations, shop council movements, strikes, general strikes, control of production, occupation of factories, armed revolt, etc.) and the institutions of bourgeois democracy (parliaments, etc.). It seeks to remove the capitalists from every position of advantage in the daily problems of the life of the working class, and to undermine the bourgeois democratic institutions from within until the time comes when it will finally destroy them. The world revolution has begun. In a vast territory of Europe and Asia the laboring masses, led by the working class of Russia, have overthrown their bourgeoisie and established Soviet Republics. German and Austrian imperialism have received their death blows. The proletariat of those countries have begun the struggle for the capture of power; gigantic strikes and social conflicts have shaken all the capitalist countries to their foundations. Millions of oppressed colonial slaves have taken up arms for their emancipation from national and social enslavement. But the world revolution is a long drawn out struggle which will fill a whole epoch in the history of humanity. During this epoch the revolutionary wave will rise and fall. Defeat will follow victory and victory will follow defeat. The working class will be finally victorious only if it is prepared for the greatest sacrifices, if it is filled with the greatest heroism, if it learns discipline, and if it fights its class enemies on every front. THE WORKING CLASS YOUTH UNDER CAPITALISM The class character of capitalist society becomes especially apparent in the present condition of the vouth and in its social position The youth is divided into two sections-K>ne of the oppressed class, and one of the ruling class; and these two have as little in common as have the capitalist class and the working class. The offsprings of the rulmg class enjoy every advantage of education and careful tanning while the young workers of city and country share the fate of the adult working class and are the objects of a ruthless exploitation. The niggardly crumbs of education which are granted 28 |