Title | The draft program of the Communist International |
Alternative Title | The draft program of the Communist International: a criticism of fundamentals |
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Publisher | "The Militant" |
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Date | 1929 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 139 pages; 20 cm |
Original Item Location | HX11.I5T73 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304416~S5 |
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 |
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Transcript | The criticism deals with the role of American Imperialism and with the prospect of new revolu- tionary situations arising from its hegemony and growing aggression. The section on the Chinese revolution and its lessons, which occupies a large part of the pamphlet, elucidates the problems of the Chinese revolution and enables the American reader, for the first time, to glimpse the actualities of this world historical event. The theses, articles and speeches of Trotsky and the other leaders of the Russian Opposition on the problems and tasks of the Chinese Revolution, which estimated the whole course of events with the most remarkable precision, were suppressed and concealed from the Parties of the entire International. This unbelievable and absolutely unprecedented procedure becomes all the more monstrous in the light of the subsequent developments which wholly confirmed the correctness of the position of Trotsky and his colleagues and revealed the Menshevist tactics of Stalin and Bucharin as the source of the cruel defeats of the Chinese proletariat. Trotsky's Criticism of the Program draws the lessons of the period of the Chinese revolution which culminated with the Canton uprising, lays bare the errors of the leadership with all their tragic consequences, and the incalculable menace for the future contained in the attempt to conceal or justify these errors in the adopted program. In the Chinese revolution in 1926-27 the Opposition led by Trotsky proposed the slogan of Soviets uniting the workers and the peasants, under the leadership of the former against the bourgeoisie. They wanted to warn the workers and peasants not to trust the leaders of the Kuo Min Tang of the Left Kuo Min Tang. They wanted the workers and the vanguard of the peasants to arm themselves. They wanted complete independence for the Communist Party and in general a vu |