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 | THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL We have constantly insisted on this on the same grounds since 1923-1924 when the problem of the United States of America arose in its full scope as a problem of WORLD and, in the most direct sense of the word, EUROPEAN POLICY. In boosting the new draft program Pravda said that a Communist program: "differs fundamentally from the program of international Social Democracy not only by the substance of its main ideas, but by the characteristic internationalism of its construction."—(Pravda, May 29, 1928). In this rather indefinite formulation is" expressed the idea which we have outlined above and which was formerly stubbornly rejected. One can only welcome the departure from the first draft program presented by Bucharin which, properly speaking, did not rouse any serious exchange of opinion as it did not give enough cause for such. While the first draft gave a vague schematic reflection of the development of one abstract country toward Socialism, the new draft is trying, insistently and without success as we will unfortunately see, to take world economy as a whole as its starting point in determining the fate of its individual parts. Linking up countries and continents of various stages of development in a system of mutual dependence and antagonism, levelling out the state of their development and at the same time enlarging the differences between them and irreconcilably setting up one country against the other, world economy has become a mighty reality which holds sway over the economy of individual countries and continents. It is this basic fact that makes the very idea of a world Communist Party a reality. Bringing world economy as a whole to the highest possible phase of development on the |