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The ABC of Communism
Bukharin, Preobrazhensky; (edited by Carr, E. H.)
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm Year Published: 1920 Pages: 481pp Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX7894 Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action. Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface Part One: Theoretical Growth and Decay of Capitalism Introduction: Our Programme 1. What is a programme? 2. What was our previous programme? 3. Why was it necessary to draw up a new program? 4. The meaning of our programme 5. The scientific character of our programme I. The Capitalistic Social Order 6. Commodity economy 7. Monopolization of the means of production by the capitalist class 8. Wage labour 9. Conditions of production under capitalism 10. The exploitation of labour power 11. Capital 12. The capitalist state 13. Fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system II. The Development of the Capitalist Social Order 14. The struggle between small-scale and large-scale production 15. The dependent position of the proletariat; the reserve army of labour; women's labour and child labour 16. The anarchy of production; competition; crises 17. The development of capitalism and of class. The intensification of the class struggle 18. The concentration and centralization of capital as causal factors of communism III. Communism and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 19. Characteristics of the communist system. Production under communism 20. Distribution in the communist system 21. Administration in the communist system 22. The development of productive forces in the communist system (The advantages of communism) 23. The dictatorship of the proletariat 24. The conquest of political power 25. The Communist Party and the classes of capitalist society IV. How the Development of Capitalism led to the Communist Revolution (Imperialism, The War, and the Collapse of Capitalism) 26. Financial capital 27. Imperialism 28. Militarism 29. The imperialist war of 1914 to 1918 30. State capitalism and the classes 31. The collapse of capitalism, and the working class 32. The civil war 33. The forms of the civil war and its cost 34. Chaos or communism V. The Second and Third International 35. Internationalism of the workers' movement essential to the victory of the communist revolution 36. The collapse of the Second International and its causes 37. The watchwords 'National Defence' and 'Pacifism' 38. Jingo socialists 39. The Centre 40. The Third International Part Two: Practical The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Upbuilding of Communism Introduction: The Conditions of Communist Activity in Russia 41. The international situation of Russia 42. Large-scale industry in Russia 43. The disastrous legacy of the imperialist war 44. The civil war and the struggle with international imperialism 45. The petty-bourgeois character of Russia, the lack of extensive organizatory experience on the part of the proletariat VI. The Soviet Power 46. The Soviet Power as a form of proletarian dictatorship 47. Proletarian democracy and bourgeois democracy 48. The class character and the transitoriness of the proletarian dictatorship 49. Rights of the workers under bourgeois democracy and under the Soviet Power 50. The equality of the workers, irrespective of sex, creed, and race 51. Parliamentarism and the Soviet system 52. The army and the Soviet Power 53. The leading role of the proletariat 54. Bureaucracy and the Soviet Power VII. Communism and the Problem of Nationality 55. The oppression of subject nationalities 56. The unity of the proletariat 57. The causes of national enmity 58. The equal rights of the nations and the right to self-determination; federation 59. Who expresses the 'Will of the Nation' 60. Antisemitism and the proletariat VIII. The Programme of the Communists in Relation to Army Organization 61. Our old army programme, and the question of war in a socialist state 62. The need for the Red Army; its class composition 63. Universal military training of the workers 64. Self-imposed discipline versus discipline imposed from above 65. The political commissars and the communist groups 66. Structure of the Red Army 67. The officers of the Red Army 68. Should army officers be elected, or should they be appointed from above? 69. The Red Army is provisional IX. Proletarian Justice 70. The administration of justice in bourgeois society 71. The election of the judiciary by the workers 72. Unified popular law-courts 73. Revolutionary tribunals 74. Proletarian penal methods 75. Proletarian justice in the future X. Communism and Education 76. The school under the bourgeois regime 77. The destructive tasks of communism 78. The school as an instrument of communist education and enlightenment 79. Preparation for school life 80. The unified labour school 81. Specialist education 82. The university 83. Soviet schools and party schools 84. Extra-scholastic instruction 85. New workers on behalf of enlightenment 86. The treasures of art and science made available to the workers 87. The state propaganda of communism 88. Popular education under tsarism and under Soviet Power XI. Communism and Religion 89. Why religion and comunism are incompatible 90. Separation of the church from the state 91. Separation of the school from the church 92. Struggle with the religious prejudices of the masses XII. The Organization of Industry 93. The expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the proletarian nationalization of large-scale industry 94. Our goal, the development of productivity 95. The purposive organization of economic life 96. The development of economic cooperation with other lands 97. The organization of small-scale industry, handicraft, and home industry 98. The organization of industry and of trade unions 99. The utilization of labour power 100. Comradely labour discipline 101. The employment of bourgeois experts 102. The union of production and science XIII. The Organization of Agriculture 103. Agrarian conditions in Russia prior to the revolution 104. Agrarian conditions in Russia subsequent to the revolution 105. Why does the future belong to large-scale socialist agriculture? 106. Soviet Agriculture 107. Urban and suburban agriculture (market gardening) 108. Communes and artels 109. Cooperative farming 110. Agricultural cooperation 111. The state utilization of abandoned areas; the mobilization of agricultural experts; lending stations; improvement of the land; land settlements 112. State assistance to peasant agriculture 113. The union of manufacturing industry with agriculture 114. The tactics of the Communist Party in relation to the peasants XIV. The Organization of Distribution 115. The abolition of private trade 116. The apparatus of distribution 117. Cooperation in former days 118. Contemporary cooperation 119. Other organs of distribution XV. The Organization of Banks and Monetary Circulation 120. The Nationalization of the banks and the unified people's bank. The bank as a central book-keeping establishment 121. Money and the drying-out of the monetary system XVI. Finance in the Proletarian State 122. The state as a parisitic apparatus 123. The proletarian state as a productive apparatus 124. The budget of the proletarian state XVII. The Housing Problem 125. The housing problem in capitalist society 126. The housing problem in proletarian state XVIII. Labour Protection and Social Welfare Work 127. What is labour protection? 128. The chief fields of labour protection 129. What has been done in Russia as regards labour protection? 130. What is social welfare work? 131. The chief provinces of social welfare work 132. Social welfare work in Russia 133. Other measures for the improvement of the condition of the working class 134. Further tasks of the party XIX. Public Hygiene 135. The need for the special protection of public health 136. The nationalization of medical institutions 137. The labour duty of medical workers 138. Immediate tasks in the domain of public hygiene Programme of the Communist Party in Russia Glossary Index Subject Headings
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