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 insignificant minority of the richest and most intellectually advanced capitalist countries, such enslavement being inherent in the epoch of capitalism and imperialism.

3. The imperialistic war of 1914–1918 has shown with especial clearness to all the nations and oppressed classes of the world the deceitfulness of bourgeois-democratic phrases, practically proving that the treaty of Versailles of the illustrious "western democracies" is a still more barbarous and base violation of the weaker nations than the Brest-Litovsk treaty of the junkers and the Kaiser. The League of Nations and the entire post-war policy of the Entente demonstrate this truth even more sharply and clearly, strengthening everywhere the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat of the advanced countries, and the worker masses of the colonial and dependent countries and accelerating the dissipation of all bourgeois-national illusions regarding the possibility of a peaceful existence and the equality of nations under capitalism.

4. It follows from the above fundamental propositions that the cornerstone of the Communist International's national and colonial policy must be the uniting of the proletarian and working masses of all nations and countries in a joint revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of the landowners and the bourgeoisie. Only such a union can guarantee the victory over capitalism without which it is impossible to suppress national inequality and oppression.

5. The world political situation has placed the dictatorship of the proletariat on the order of the day, and all the events of international politics are inevitably concentrated around one central point, namely, the warfare of the world bourgeoisie against the Russian Soviet Republic, which is grouping around itself on the one hand the Soviet movements of the advanced workmen of all countries, and on the other hand all the national-liberation movements of the colonies and the oppressed nationalities, which have passed through a bitter experience and see that there is no help for them