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Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940. The draft program of the Communist International - Image 146. 1929. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. September 30, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/6178/show/6167.

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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 146
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_1984506_145.jpg
Transcript	132 THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF not trust any possessors, even those small ones, even though they 'labor'... We support the peasant movement to the end, but we must remember that it is a movement of another class, not the class which can or will accomplish the social revolution." (Vol 9. page 410). This idea can be found in hundreds of the larger and smaller works of Lenin. In 1908, he said: "The alliance of the proletariat and the peasantry, we will remark in passing, must by no means be understood in the sense of a MERGING OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OR PARTIES of the proletariat and the peasantry. Not only merging, but even ANY PROLONGED CONCORDANCE would be detrimental for the socialist revolution of the working class and would weaken the revolutionary democratic struggle." (Vol. 11, Part 1, page 79. Our emphasis). Is it possible to condemn the very idea of a Workers' and Peasants' Party more sharply, more ruthlessly and more effectively? Lenin puts the question in the same irreconcilable spirit also in the epoch of the October Revolution. In generalizing the experiences of the third Russian revolution, Lenin, beginning with 1918, does not miss a single opportunity to repeat that in a society where capitalist relations predominate there are only two decisive forces—the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. "If the peasant does not follow the workers, he follows the bourgeoisie. There is and there can be no middle course." (Vol. 16, page 290). However, the "Workers' and Peasants' Party" is an attempt at the creation of a middle course. If the vanguard of the Russian proletariat had not stood up distinctly against the peasantry, if it had not waged a ruthless struggle against the petty-bourgeois looseness of the latter, it would inevitably have itself been dissolved among the