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 | 92 THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF and America tomorrow. This is what determines the gigantic scope and monstrous sharpness of the struggle which faces the masses of China, the more so now when the depth of the stream of the struggle has already been measured and felt by all of its participants. The enormous role of foreign capitalism in Chinese industry and its custom to rely directly on its own "national" bayonets, makes the program of workers' control in China even less real than it was in Russia. The direct expropriation of the foreign capitalist and later also the Chinese capitalist enterprises, will most likely be made imperative by the struggle, on the morrow after the victorious insurrection. This objective socio-historical causes of the "October" outcome of the Russian revolution rise before us in China in a still more accentuated form. The bourgeois and proletarian sections of the Chinese people stand up against each other even more distinctly, if this is at all possible, than they did in Russia inasmuch as, on the one hand, the Chinese bourgeoisie is directly connected with foreign imperialism and its military machine and, on the other hand, the Chinese proletariat has from the very beginning established relations with the Comintern and the Soviet Union. Numerically the Chinese peasantry constitutes an even more overwhelming mass than the Russian peasants. But being crushed in the fight between world contradictions, upon the solution of which in one way or another its fate depends, the Chinese peasantry, is even less capable than the Russian of playing a DOMINANT role. It is no longer a theoretical forecast but a fact tested through and through and from all sides. These main, and, at the same time, incontrc |