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 32 |
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Transcript | The pitting of the young workers against their older comrades to whom they are related by bonds of class, of common misery, and of blood, is another especially crass sign of the miserable condition of the working class youth under capitalism. The capitalists make use of the young workers to cut wages, to break the strikes of the adult workers, and to rob the adult workers of their jobs. The economic servitude of the young worker is closely connected with the spiritual oppression enforced by the bourgeoisie. The bourgeois schools teach only such things, and only as much, as will make the young workers willing and capable slaves of capitalism in the factories, in the army, and in politics. This is the purpose of the public and continuation schools. Only the youths of the bourgeoisie can attend the high schools, colleges, and universities. Bourgeois literature and the bourgeois press, religion and religious bodies, the church, bourgeois art, literary trash for the youth, moving pictures, music halls, variety shows—all serve the same purpose. Special bourgeois youth organisations, educational and social— hiking clubs, sport clubs, nationalist unions, military organizations, religious, free thought, pacifist, political, boy scout organizations, — all exist for the special purpose of poisoning the minds of the young workers for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. The militarism of the capitalist states, which serves to carry on imperialist wars and to suppress the working class at home, recruits its forces primarily from the young workers and peasants. For the military caste these young human beings are nothing but cannon fodder. The militaristic spirit is intended to make the young workers the willing victims of imperialist slaughters, and in many countries the infusion of a militaristic spirit begins in the preparatory imhtary organizations of children of school age The capitalist military service turns the young workers into automatons to be used against their class brothers at home and abroad. They waste the best years of heir youth in military barracks. It is the blood rmpedaliTwal T *** **** ****** «« battle fields of . *?' altncu|h capitalism demands from the young workers these incredible sacrifices of toil and of blood it refuses them the most elementary political rights. s them ™e Especially in the small artizans' shops, the apprentice lives in abject dependence upon his employer. The working class youth is not allowed the right to vote, even in the pitiful institutions of 30 |