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 |
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 |
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Transcript | fHE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL 65 ithout entering "the arena of the world-wide proletarian revolution" then the International is jartly a subsidiary and partly a useless institution, ie Congresses of which can be held once in four fears, once in ten years or perhaps not at all. If re were to add that the proletariat of the other Countries must protect our construction from mil- iry interventions, then the International according to this scheme, must play the role of a PACIFIST instrument. Its main role, the role of In instrument of world revolution, recedes in this bnnection inevitably to a backward position. And Ihis, we repeat, is not a result of anyone's deliberate intentions, on the contrary, many points in ie program show the very best intentions of its [uthors—but as a result of the inherent logic of ie new theoretical position which is a thousand [imes more dangerous than the worst subjective itentions. The draft program expresses an in- lontrovertible idea when it says that the economic luccess of the U.S.S.R. constitutes an inseparable |art of the world-wide proletarian revolution, put the political danger of the new theory lies in ie false comparative evaluation of the two levers If international socialism—the lever of our econ- jmic achievements and the lever of the world-wide koletarian revolution. Without a victorious proletarian revolution we will not be able to build up Sialism. The European workers and the workers ie world over must clearly understand this. [he lever of economic construction is of tremend- is significance. Without proper guidance, the jictatorship of the proletariat would be weakened jut its downfall would be such a blow to the inter- lational revolution from which it would take many |ears to recover. But the main historical differ- ice between the socialist world and the world of |