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 | 18 THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF bove follows from the dynamics of the revolutionary process taken as a whole. The international revolution is regarded as an inter-connected process which cannot be predicted in all its con- creteness, but the general historical outlines of it are absolutely clear. Without understanding them a correct political orientation is entirely out of the question. Matters, however, appear quite differently if we proceed from the idea of socialist development which transpires and is even being completed in one country. We have now a "theory" which teaches that it is possible to build up Socialism in one country and that the inter-relations of that country with the capitalist world can be built on the basis of "neutralization" of the world bourgeoisie (Stalin). Advancing this essentially national-reformist and not revolutionary international point of view, the necessity for the slogan of a United States of Europe falls away or is at least diminished. But this slogan is, from our viewpoint, important and vitally necessary precisely because it condemns the idea of an isolated socialist development. For the proletariat of every European country, even to a greater extent than for the U.S.S.R.—the difference is only of degree —it will be of the most vital necessity to carry the revolution to the neigbouring countries and to support insurrections in them with arms in hand not because of abstract international solidarity, which is in itself unable to move the classes, but because of the vital considerations which Lenin has formulated hundreds of times—namely, without TIMELY aid from the international revolution we will not be able to hold out. The slogan of the Soviet United States corresponds with the dynamics of the proletarian revolution which does not |