Title | The draft program of the Communist International |
Alternative Title | The draft program of the Communist International: a criticism of fundamentals |
Creator (LCNAF) |
|
Contributor (LCNAF) |
|
Publisher | "The Militant" |
Place of Creation (TGN) |
|
Date | 1929 |
Subject.Topical (Local) |
|
Subject.Name (LCNAF) |
|
Subject.Geographic (TGN) |
|
Genre (AAT) |
|
Language | English |
Type (DCMI) |
|
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. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 39 |
Format (IMT) |
|
File Name | uhlib_1984506_038.jpg |
Transcript | THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL 25 labor, excludes the possibility of building up Socialism in one country, the more so now in the present epoch when imperialism has developed, deepened and sharpened both these antagonistic tendencies and has rendered the Marxian doctrine that the Socialist revolution can begin only on a national basis while the building up of a Socialist society withing national boundaries is impossible, DOUBLY AND TREBLY TRUE. On this question, Lenin merely developed and put in concrete terms Marxist formulations and Marx's answer to this question. Our Party program is entirely based on the underlying international conditions of the October revolution and Socialist construction. To prove this, one would only have to copy the theoretical part of our program. Here we will merely point out that when at the Eighth Congress of the Party, the late Podbelsky alluded that some formulations of the program refer only to the revolution in Russia, Lenin replied in his concluding speech on the question of the Party program (March 19, 1919) the following: "Podbelsky raised objections to the paragraph which speaks of the PENDING social revolution. His argument is obviously unfounded because IN OUR PROGRAM IT IS A QUESTION OF THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE."—(Vol. 16, page 113). It will not be out of place to point out here that at about the same time Lenin suggested that our Party change its name from Communist Party of Russia to Communist Party so as to emphasize still further that is a party of INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTION. I was the only one voting for that motion at the C. C. However, he did not bring the matter before the Congress in view of the foundation of the Third International. This |