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 | fHE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL 73 I culture, and especially the organizations of the German working class, as the "necessary and sufficient" national prerequisites. A similar process took place also in France, xuesde, Vaillant and thousands of the best rank and file party members with them, and hundreds }f thousands of rank and file workers in general, jelieved that precisely France with her revolution- iry traditions, her heroic proletariat, her high cul- re, her flexible and talented people, was the promised land of socialism. Old Guesde and the immunard Vaillant, and with them the thousands and hundreds of thousands of workers did lot fight for the bankers or the rentiers. They Sincerely believed that they defended the basis and pe creative power of the coming socialist society. They proceeded entirely from the theory of social- Ism in one country and made sacrifices to this idea relieving that "temporarily" this was international solidarity. The comparison with the social patriots will of fourse be answered by the argument that patriot- sm in relation to the Soviet State is a revolutionary ('uty whereas patriotism in relation to a bourgeois tate is treachery. This is surely so. Can there be ny dispute on this question among grown-up revo- ■itionaries? But this incontrovertible idea becomes Is we progress more and more a scholastic cover or a deliberate falsehood. Revolutionary patriotism can be only of a class haracter. It begins as patriotism to the party or- anization, to the trade union, and rises to nation- 1 patriotism when the proletariat has captured ower. Wherever the workers have power patriot- ;m is a revolutionary duty. But that patriotism lust be an inseparable part of revolutionary in- -^nationalism. The invincible conviction that the lam class aim even less so than partial aims can- |