Zelo ПОКУМЕНТЫ СОВЕТСКОЙ for the revolution 20 links one self merely to oriticise the petty bourgeois parties in the bourgeois democratic revolution is the result of a mechanical diferentiation between the bourgeois democratic and the proletarian revolution, is to Ignore completely the eninist position of the transfomation of the bourgeois democratie revolution into the socialist revolution in the backward countrieslespecially in the colonies and sent colonies) The Colonial thesis of the VI World Congress of the CI define clearly the cond tions for this transformation in the colonias and semi coloniest In order to pass immediately from me satag to another higher stage the following factors are of transcendental importance: a) the ability of the revolutionary proletarian leadership of the nove nont.
that is to say, of the Communist Party of the comtrylzunber of its members, consciousness and independence, its authority, relations with the masses and its influence over the trade wion and peasant mowe mmt. b) the gugkee of revolutionary experimce and of organiza tion 01 the working class and also to a certain degree of the peasantry. The revolutionary expetince of the masses implies experi ence in struggle and in the first place freedom from the influence of bourgeois and petty bourgeois parties.
But in the bourgeois democratic revolutions in the colonial cowtries, in the epoch of the general crisis of capitalism and of the world proletarian revolution, especially in the revolutions in South America and the arribean, the gezmen for this transformation already exists in the very bourgeois democratie revolution, even before its victory: the most important of thieval gernen being the existance of a relatively important proletariat, led by the Comist Party, ma the hegemony of the proletariat. Tyle question must not be presented in such a manner that it might imply that the struggle for the transformation of the bourgeois denorastic revolution begins APER its vietgry, and that only afterwards the petty bourgeois influence becomes an obstacle to its further development. The struggle for this Sognefarożnoxu http: sovdoc. rusarchives. ru