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 40 |
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Transcript | 1 I I The young workers of the city and of the country are the first victims of militarism: they are the masses who are called upon to fill the ranks of its armies and to die on the battle fields. From their earliest youth militarism seeks to poison their minds and by ideological and organizational measures to bring them f under its influence. It is therefore the primary task of the Young Communist Leagues to combat militarism relentlessly and to conduct an energetic anti-militarist propaganda among the masses of the young workers both inside and outside the army. During the period of the world revolution bourgeois militarism fights more and more openly against the working class and becomes the instrument of white terror. Thus during this period the Young Communist Leagues and the Communist Parties should take even stronger and more radical action against militarism. To the chauvinism of the imperialists, the petty bourgeois pacifists and the social democrats oppose their petty bourgeois pacifism. Pacifism, as such, is a hopeless Utopia. The bourgeoisie, fighting for the division of the world and trembling before the proletarian revolution, will never lay down their weapons until the workers have disarmed them. But what is worse, pacifism harms the proletariat. It does not alarm or disarm the bourgeoisie but it robs the proletariat of its weapons by illusions which surrender the fostering proletariat psychologically and physically helpless, into the hands of its armed class enemy. No less harmful to the working class are the methods of anti- mil itanst struggle advocated by the anarcho-syndicalist elements; £SU! ? I t0 furVe' Which' like every other independent individual action, keeps the revolutionary elements of the proletariat out of the army and thereby hinders the influencing by revolutionary propaganda of the workers in the army *' The communist understand that the armed rebellion of the proletariat OnW hvSvl S 1S"rsary iD the Str«e for "s emancipation. Only by the victory of its weapons will the proletariat be able to lead humanity to the creation of a society which being without classes ^hT[hprTrSrnH11ltansm; onlybythe™ti£rf\«damy and by the armed defence of the achievements of the revolution Sit tSSSX^Z Sca^J? ^Tt S must strive to enlighten the S S^S^SJS^ 38 |