COMINTERN

    Jane Degras, ed., The Communist International: 1919-1943 Documents
          (London: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd, 1971) Vol. 1, p. 427.


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  "The communist parties must bear in mind that while every bourgeois
  government is a capitalist government, not every workers' government
  is a really proletarian government, that is, a revolutionary
  instrument of power. The Communist International must consider the
  following possibilities:

  "1. Liberal workers' governments, such as there was in Australia; this
  is also possible in England in the near future.

  "2. Social-democratic workers' governments (Germany).

  "3. A government of workers and the poorer peasants. This is possible
  in the Balkans, Czechoslavakia, Poland, etc.

  "4. Workers' governments in which communists participate.

  "5. Genuine proletarian workers' governments, which in their pure form
  can be created only by the communist party.

  "The first two types are not revolutionary workers' governments, but
  in fact coalition governments of the bourgeoisie and
  anti-revolutionary labour leaders."

  [MC5 adds: The above was accepted by the COMINTERN including Lenin,
  Stalin, Zinoviev and Trotsky. Zinoviev was responsible for heading the
  COMINTERN while Lenin was alive.]
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