German-language edition of a Bukharins’ electric piece more commonly known in English as ‘The Program of World Revolution’ written in May 1918. Printed in the US in by the Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Kommunistischen Arbeiterpartei in Cleveland, Ohio. The group was responsible for producing a number of German-language US editions of early texts of the Russian Revolution for the ‘German speaking American worker’ to read. Cleveland’s German Speaking Federation of the Socialist Party (home turf of Charles Ruthenberg) was one of the largest, hardest, and earliest, adherents to the Left Wing. English online text here.

Programm der Kommunisten (Bolschewiki) by N. Bucharin. Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Kommunistischen Arbeiterpartei, Toiler Publishing Association. Cleveland, Ohio. 1919.

Contents (English): Editors Preface, I. The Reign of Capital, the Working Class, and the Poorer Elements of the Village Population, II. Plundering Wars – The Oppression of the Working Classes, and the Beginning of the Fall of Capitalism, III. General Sharing, or Co-operative Communist Production, IV. An Anarchist or a Communist Order, V. To Communism Through Proletarian Dictatorship, VI. A Soviet Government or a Bourgeois Republic?, VII. Freedom for the Working Class and the Poorest Elements of the Peasantry; Restrictions for the Bourgeoisie, VIII. Banks, the Common Property of the Workers. Nationalisation of Banks, IX. Industry to Belong to the Working Class, X. Communal Cultivation of Public Land, XI. Workers’ Management of Production, XII. Bread – Only for the Workers. Compulsory Labour Service for the Rich, XIII. A Systematic Distribution of Products. The Abolition of Trade, Profits, and Speculation. Co-operative Communes, XIV. Labour Discipline of the Working Class and the Poorest Elements of the Peasantry, XV. The End of the Power of Money. “State Finances” and Financial Economy in the Soviet Republic, XVI. No Trade Communication Between the Russian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Imperialists, XVII. Spiritual Liberation – The Next Step to Economic Liberation, XVIII. The People Armed to Defend Their Gains, XIX. The Liberation of Nations, Conclusion.

The Toiler was a significant regional, later national, newspaper of the early Communist movement published weekly between 1919 and 1921. It grew out of the Socialist Party’s ‘The Ohio Socialist’, leading paper of the Party’s left wing and northern Ohio’s militant IWW base and became the national voice of the forces that would become The Communist Labor Party. The Toiler was first published in Cleveland, Ohio, its volume number continuing on from The Ohio Socialist, in the fall of 1919 as the paper of the Communist Labor Party of Ohio. The Toiler moved to New York City in early 1920 and with its union focus served as the labor paper of the CLP and the legal Workers Party of America. Editors included Elmer Allison and James P Cannon. The original English language and/or US publication of key texts of the international revolutionary movement are prominent features of the Toiler. In January 1922, The Toiler merged with The Workers Council to form The Worker, becoming the Communist Party’s main paper continuing as The Daily Worker in January, 1924.

PDF of full issue: https://archive.org/download/programmderkommu00bukh/programmderkommu00bukh.pdf