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Trotsky, Leon. The draft program of the Communist International - Image 75. 1929. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. May 12, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/6178/show/6096.

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Title	The draft program of the Communist International
Alternative Title	The draft program of the Communist International: a criticism of fundamentals
Creator (LCNAF)	Trotsky, Leon
Contributor (LCNAF)	Cannon, James P.
Publisher	The Militant (Newspaper)
Date	1929
Subject.Topical (Local)	Politics and government
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	Communist International
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	China
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
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
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 75
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_1984506_074.jpg
Transcript	the productive forces of Great Britain would be more "moderate" and maintain a relative equilibrium between industry and agriculture, then the British proletariat would apparently be able to build up complete socialism on its own island protected from foreign intervention by the navy. The draft program divides in its fourth chapter the capitalist states into three groups: 1) "countries of highly developed capitalism (United States, Germany, Great Britain, etc.)"; 2) "countries of an average level of capitalist development (Russia prior to 1917, Poland, etc.)"; 3) "colonial and semi-colonial countries (China, India, etc.)." Notwithstanding the fact that "Russia prior to 1917" was much closer to present-day China than to the United States, one could refrain from any serious objection to this schematic division were it not for the fact that it serves as a source of wrong conclusions in connection with other parts of the draft. Inasmuch as the countries "with an average level" are declared to possess "sufficient industrial minimums" for independent socialist construction, this is particularly true concerning countries of high capitalist development; it is ONLY the colonial and semi-colonial countries that need assistance. That is precisely, as we shall see later, how they are characterized in the draft program. If, however, we approach the question of socialist construction only with this criterion, abstracting from other conditions such as the material resources of the country, the correlation between industry and agriculture within it, its place in the world economic system, then we will fall into new, no less gross, mistakes and contradictions. We [have just spoken about Great Britain. Being no doubt a jhighly-developed capitalist country, it has, PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THAT, no