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 | IHE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL 53 sath struggle between two social systems one of Jhich only commenced to build on backward pro- jctive forces and the other which still rests on ^•oductive forces of immeasurably greater strength. Anyone who sees in the admission of our de- mdence on the world market (Lenin spoke direct- of our SUBORDINATION to the world mar- 2t) "pessimism," reveals thereby his own provin- fcal petty-bourgeois feebleness in the face of the porld market and the pititful character of his Duntry-bred optimism, hoping to hide from world :onomy behind a bush and to get along somehow irith his own means. The question of honor for the new theory has lecome the curious idea that the U.S.S.R. can lerish from a military intervention, but by no Tieans from its own economic backwardness. But lasmuch as in socialist society the readiness of ie toiling masses to defend their country must be mch greater than the readiness of the slaves of ipitalism to attack that country, the question is ^hy should a military intervention menace us nth destruction? Is it because the enemy is [TECHNICALLY immeasurably stronger? Buch- rin admits the preponderance of the productive )rces only in the military technical aspect. He foes not want to understand that Ford's tractor is ist as dangerous as the Creusot gun, with the only fifference that whereas the gun can act only from June to time, the tractor brings its pressure to bear jonstantly. Besides, the tractor knows that a gun tands behind it, as a last resort. We are the first Workers' State—a part of the wrld proletariat together with which we DEFEND upon world capital. The indifferent, neu- il and bureaucratically castrated word, "connection is set in motion only with the object of con- |