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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File Name | index.cpd |
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Transcript | soon be published as a companion volume to the Criticism of the Program. The conscientious study of these historic documents of the true defenders of Leninism, in comparison with the official ma' terial, shot through as it is with revisionist errors, falsifications and contradictions, will go a long way toward the enlightenment of the American Communists on the outstanding problems of the International Communist movement. The formation of "Farmer-Labor" Parties—that source of such exaggerated hopes and unbounded mistakes in the American Party—is reviewed at length in this volume. The underlying falsity of the whole idea of a "two-class" party is analyzed from the theoretical standpoint of Marxism and the history of the Russian revolutionary movement, and is condemned in principle—for the West as well as for the East. Trotsky's comment on the "Third Party Alliance" with LaFollette, the fight against which was led by him will be especially interesting to American Communists. All of which is a timely reminder of the heavy debt our Party owes to Trotsky. His part in saving it from the disgrace and the direct threat to its existence contained in the proposal to support LaFollette is not the only exceptional service he has rendered to it. It was his initiative which brought the assistance of the Communist International in 1922 to the task of liberating the Communist Party of America from the straight'jacket of illegality in which it had bound itself. And now it is he, above all others, who is showing the Party, and the whole Comintern, the way back to Leninism on the great world problems of the present period. The publication of this masterpiece of Bolshevik literature, written by the foremost living leader of World Communism at the height of his powers, is a revolutionary event of great importance for the American movement. The profound influence it IX |