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Trotsky, Leon. The draft program of the Communist International - Image 129. 1929. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. May 16, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/6178/show/6150.

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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 129
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_1984506_128.jpg
Transcript	THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL 115 reached its highest degree. It was clear that to lose further time would mean definitely to miss the revolutionary situation. The uprising was finally put on the agenda with very little time left. To advance the slogari of Soviets under such conditions would have been the greatest doctrinarism conceivable. The Soviet is not a talisman which has the power to save everything. In the situation such as had then developed the creation of Soviets in a hurry would only have duplicated the factory committees. It would have become necessary to deprive the latter of their revolutionary functions and to pass them over to the newly created Soviets which would have been absolutely without any activity. And when? In conditions when each day counted. This would have meant to substitute for revolutionary action a vicious and most harmful game in organizational gew-gaw. That the organizational form of a Soviet can be of gigantic importance, this is irrefutable, provided, however, that it reflects a correct political line and in proper time. It can, on the other hand be of no less negative importance if it is converted into a fiction, a talisman, a bagatelle. The creation at the very last moment of German Soviets in the Autumn of 1923 would have added nothing politically, it would only have caused organizational confusion. What happened in Canton is even still worse. The Soviet which was created m a hurry to perform the ritual was merely a masquerade for the adventurist putsch. That is why we found out after it was all over that the Canton Soviet was just one of those old Chinese dragons ~-simply drawn on paper. The policy of wire-pull- mg and paper dragons is not our policy. We were against the improvizing of Soviets by telegraph in Germany in September 1923. We were for the