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 35 However, we feel compelled to mention here one more article by Lenin—that "On Cooperation"—as the draft program seems to quote it extensively, i. e., uses some of its expressions with a purpose which has nothing in common with that of the article. We have in mind the fifth chapter of the draft program which says that the workers of the Soviet Republics "possess all the necessary and sufficient MATERIAL prerequisites in the country. . . for the complete construction of Socialism."—(Our emphasis). If the article dictated by Lenin during his illness and published after his death really says that the Soviet State possesses all the necessary and sufficient MATERIAL, that is, first of all PRODUCTIVE, prerequisites for an independent construction of complete Socialism, one would only have to surmise that either Lenin slipped in his dictation or the stenographer made a mistake in deciphering her notes. The one or the other is at any rate more probable than Lenin's abandonment of Marxism and his own teachings in two hasty strokes. Fortunately, however, there is not the slightest need whatever for such an explanation. The remarkable, although incomplete article "On Cooperation," bound up by unity of thought with the other no less remarkable articles of his last period which constitute, so to say, a chapter of an unfinished book dealing with THE PLACE OCCUPIED BY THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION IN THE CHAIN OF REVOLUTIONS IN THE WEST AND EAST, does not by any means speak of the things which the revisionists of Leninism so light-mindedly ascribe to it. In that article Lenin explains that the "trading" cooperatives can and must entirely change their social role in the workers'' state and that by a cor' rect policy they may direct the merging of private |