The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-11

BuKnarln, CHAIRMAN OF CAe
Communist international char
>acterized the program which
he declares will be the rallying
banner for thousands of work
ers and peasants throughout
the world. His speech was de-
livered before the twenty
fourth session of the World
Congress of the Communist
international which opened
here yesterday under the chair
manship of Thaelmann, of Ger
many.
Guide to Struggle.
Bukharin declared that the pro-
gram of the International is the
program of proletarian dictatorship,
and serves as a sign post to imme-
diate revolutionary struggles.
The first documents of revolu-
tionary Marxism, such as the Com
munist Manifesto are still valid to-
day, the speaker declared, but our
program contains differences born
of the present. Then Communism
was propagandistic, today Commu-
nism is an active world army with
an aim in immediate view. The die
tartorship of the proletariat exists
\ in what was formerly the Tsarist
empire.
First Strategic Document.
The present draft program is
long and this is necessary in order
to deal with all sides of the situa-
ton. Our program represents for
the first time real international
strategic document of the prole-
tariat. The program commission
was forced to make changes in the
Fifth Congress draft because the
world situation had altered in the
meantime. These alterations are
chiefly: the new imperialist group
ings; the Chinese Revolution and the
progress and new experience of the
Soviet Union.
At the time of the Fifth Congress,
fascism was only beginning. Since
then the social democratic parties
have gone through a new stage of
development and the functions of
the trade unions have altered. Tao
teal questions, as for example tn.
united front, are today different.
different.
Marxism Is Basis
The program is an open ap-
proval of dialectical materialism.
We stand on a basis of orthodox
revolutionary Marxism and our
method is dialectical materialism.
We propagate the MARKHAM lessons
concerning the collapse of capitalism
and the world revolution. The urg-
ency of the present situation has
compelled US to analyze it con-
cretely.
We speak of the existing world
economic system, the contradictions
Of imperialism and the crisis of
capitalism not abstractly but con-
cretely. We interpret our theory.
Types of Countries
The program states concretely of
final aims, transformation periods,
the strategy and tactics of the
Communist parties. The program
differentiates between three types
of countries: highly developed capi-
talist countries, moderately deveK
oped capitalist countries and finally
colonial and semi-colonial countries.
The special Characteristic of the
program is the section dealing with
the Soviet Union and colonial ques-
tions. The program deals also with
the question of the relations of the
world proletariat with the world
peasantry. The program differ
entiates between countries where
capitalism is strongly developed and
those where it is not. In the for
mer, the question of the hegemony
of the proletariat is ripe.
The Chinese Revolution is de-
veloping from a bourgeois to pro-
letarian revolution. On the colonial
question, we must stress more
sharply Lenin's thesis concerning
the avoidance of the capitalist stage
of society. Despite its parasitic
tendencies, capitalism is still capahle
of powerful technical progress, but
will collapse through the great con-
tradictions which lie in its own d.
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