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Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940. The draft program of the Communist International - Image 142. 1929. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 16, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/6178/show/6163.

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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, 1879-1940
Contributor (LCNAF)	Cannon, James Patrick, 1890-1974
Publisher	"The Militant"
Place of Creation (TGN)	New York, New York
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: 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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Title	Image 142
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_1984506_141.jpg
Transcript	128 THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF PEASANTS' PARTY. That is precisely why we must not try to subordinate the proletarian party to the bourgeoisie, but on the contrary, must at every step, set up one against the other. The leaders of the Kuomintang of whom Bucharin speaks so ironically, as of some secondary, accidental and temporary event, are in reality the soul of the Kuomintang, its social substance. Of course the bourgeoisie constitutes only the "top" in the Party as well as in society, but this top has capital, knowledge, connection; it can always fall back on the imperialists for support, and what is more it has actual political military power which directly merges with power in the Kuomintang itself. Precisely this top wrote laws against strikes, throttled the movement of the peasants, got the Communists into a dark corner, and, at best, allowed them to be only one-third of the Party, took an oath from them that petty-bourgeois Sun Yat Senism is for them above Marxism. The rank and file were picked; they served it, like Moscow, as a "Left" support, just as the generals, compradores and imperialists served it as a Right support. To consider the Kuomintang not as a BOURGEOIS PARTY, but as a NEUTRAL ARENA OF STRUGGLE FOR THE MASSES, to play on nine-tenths of the Left bourgeoisie in order to conceal the question as to who is the real master, meant to add strength and power to the leaders, to help them to convert ever larger numbers into "cattle", and, under favorable conditions, to prepare the Shanghai coup d'Etat. Based on the reactionary idea of the dual composition of the Party, Stalin and Bucharin imagined that the Communists together with the "Lefts" will secure a majority in the Kuomintang and thereby power in the country, as in China power was in the hands of the Kuo-