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 | 56 THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF( 7. THE ANTAGONISM BETWEEN THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES AND THE NATIONAL BOUNDARIES AS THE CAUSE OF THE REACTIONARY UTOPIAN THEORY OF SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY. The theory of socialism in one country is con* firmed as we have seen by means of several sophist interpretations of Lenin's expressions on the one hand and by a scholastic interpretation of the "law of uneven development" on the other. By giving a correct interpretation of the historical law as well as of the respective quotations we arrived at a directly opposite conclusion, that is, a conclusion at which Marx, Engels, Lenin and all of us in' eluding Stalin and Bucharin up to 1925, have ar rived. From the uneven sporadic development of cap italism follow the unsimultaneous, uneven and spo radic nature of the socialist revolution; from the extreme tensity of the inter-dependence of the various countries upon each other, follows not only the political but also the economic impossibility of the building up of socialism in one country. From this angle we will examine once again the text of the program a little closer. We have already read in the introduction that: "Imperialism . . . intensifies the contradiction be tween the growth of the productive forces of world economy and national State barriers to an exceptional degree." We have already stated that this utterance was meant to be the corner-stone of the international program. But it is precisely this enunciation' which excludes, rejects and sweeps away before- |