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 |
Use and Reproduction | In Copyright: This item is protected by copyright. Copyright to this resource is held by the creator or current rights holder, and the resource is provided here for educational purposes. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without permission of the copyright owner. Users assume full responsibility for any infringement of copyright or related rights. |
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Transcript | 14 THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF ative Europe, or that Socialist Germany would be able to remain isolated in a capitalist world."—(Ibid., page 89-90). On the ground of this and two of three similar quotations is based the condemnation of "Trotskyism" by the Seventh Plenum as having held in this "fundamental question" a position "which has nothing in common with Leninism." We will therefore stop for a moment and listen to Lenin himself. On March 7, 1918 he said on the question of the Brest-Litovsk Peace the following: "This is a lesson because the absolute truth is that without a revolution in Germany we will perish."- - (Vol. 15, page 132, Russian Edition). A week later he said: "World imperialism side by side with a victorious onslaught of the social revolution cannot get along together."—(Ibid., page 175). A few days later on April 23, Lenin said: "Our BACKWARDNESS has thrust us forward and WE WILL PERISH if we will not be able to hold out until we meet with the mighty support oT the INSURRECTIONARY workers of other countries."—(Ibid., page 187. Our emphasis). But perhaps this was all said under the special influence of the Brest Litovsk crisis? No! In March 1919 Lenin again repeated: "We do not live merely in a State but in a system of states and the existence of the Soviet Republic side by side with imperialist states FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME IS INCONCEIVABLE. In the end one or the other must triumph."—(Vol. 16, page 102). A year later, April 7, 1920, Lenin reiterates: "Capitalism, if taken on an international scale, is even now, NOT ONLY IN A MILITARY BUT ALSO IN AN ECONOMIC SENSE, stronger than |