The Early Communist International and the Colonial Question
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From these fundamental premises it follows that the Communist International's entire policy on the national and colonial questions should rest primarily on a closer union of the proletarians and the working masses of all nations and countries for a joint revolutionary struggle to overthrow the landowners and the bourgeoisie. This union alone will guarantee victory over capitalism, without which the abolition of national oppression and inequality is impossible. Draft Theses on the National and Colonial Questions by V. I. Lenin (for the Second Congress of the Communist International) (June 5, 1920) ...the Communist International should advance and theoretically substantiate the proposition that with the aid of the proletariat of the advanced countries, the backward countries can pass over to the Soviet system and, through definite stages of development, to communism, without going through the capitalist stage. Report of the Commission on the National and the Colonial Questions by V. I. Lenin (July 26, 1920) Second Congress of the Communist International Marxists on India index anti-caste: links anti-caste home
					photo: Lenin addresses the opening session of the Second Congress of the Third (Communist) International, 1920.