Irish Communist Policy
Letter to Sylvia Pankhurst
Pannekoek, Anton
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Date Written: 1922-09-30
Publisher: Workers' Dreadnought
Year Published: 1922
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX10859
The belief that some foreign power, the State, may accomplish it for the workers by decrees and laws is a social-democratic belief - nay, only the most narrow-minded social democrats believe it; most social democrats in former times knew quite well that the chief force of transformation must come from below. The programme of the Communist Party of Ireland is not only non-Communist because it appeals to the State for everything, but also because it asks from this State only reforms.
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