The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-08


edge and technical qualifications, their
practical introduction into social
work, and further, the combating of
vostiges of bourgeois and petty bour-
geois prejudices. etc.
Amongst the tasks of combating
bourgeois prejudices and supersti-
tons, the first place is taken by the
fight against religion, fight which
must be carried on with all requisite
tact and all caution, especially among
those sections of workers in wh
daily life religion has hitherto been
deeply rooted.
The proletarian state power must
discontinue all state support to
churches. prevent any interference by
the church in state organized educa-
ton and further fight against all coun-
ter-revOlutionary activity Of church
organizations or their individual
representatives.
5. The Removal Of ImperIaIist Pres
sure and the Organization Of
Voluntary State Associations
of the proIetariat.
The main supports Of the gigantic
imperialist state were and are the ar
tifcially created relations between the
colonies and semi-colonies, and i'm
perialist mother countries. The
colonial and national questions thus
play an exceedingly important role.
not only from the viewpoint of the
decay of capitalist relations, but also
from the viewpoint of capitalist struc-
ture.
In this respect the program Of the
Communist International makes the
following demands. in complete op-
position to The policy of the bour-
geoisie and of socialdemocracy:
1. The right of self-determination
under which is also to be understood
the right of complete separation from
the state. This principle is binding
as a requirement to be demanded of
the bourgeois state, where it serves as
a weapon against Imperialism, and is
equally binding under the regime of
proletarian dictatorship, where it
serves as a means Of overcoming the
national distrust nurtured thru cen
turtles of bourgeois government.
Q. The liberation Of the colonies,
and the support of all colonial move
ments against Imperialism. In the
case Of proletarian state embracing
former colonies, the latter are to be
accorded the right Of separation.
8. Unions of Soviet Republics, at
first in the form Of a federation.
Besides these program-planks which
relate to the system of the state, the
Communist International puts for
ward demands for the equality of ma
tons, and for the abolition of all anti
racial laws.
The Communist International also
fights against capitalist immigration
laws (for instance, the anti-Japanese
immigration law in U. S. Al, and con-
ducts propaganda against all kinds of
Chauvinism and nationalism, even if
such prejudice should exist among
the working class. The Communist
international is particularly energetic
in its campaign against Chauvanism
among the peoples of the great
powers.
In view Of the fact that the power
cannot be seized by the proletariat
simultaneously in all, or even in the
most important countries, and that,
therefore. proletarian states exist be-
side capitalist states, in spite of the
enmity because of basic principles be-
tween capitalist and proletarian states
compromises on the field Of foreign
diplomacy by the proletarian states
are possible, permissible, and at times
even obligatory. (Foreign commercial
agreements. loans. policy Of conces-
sions, participation in general confer
ences, and other forms of agreements,
including military agreements.)
w. The Road to the Dictatorship
Of the ProIetarIat.
I. The Party and Its Role.
The successful fight for the probe
tartan dictatorship presupposes the