The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-09-03
Social Contradictions Intensified

Tho destruction of industrial resources brought
about by the war did check the process OF social dfeea
ton Quite the contrary the proearzaon OF the intermediary
classes including the new middle groupings of employees Of
fa etc and the concentration wealth in the hands Of the
small CLIQUE of trusts combines and have for the last
wears made enormous strides in the backward countries
The SHINES combine the most important factor of the
economic life of Germany.
The soaring of prices all commodities concfent with the
catastrophe depreciation of currency in all countries involved
the war meant redistribution of the national Incomes the
disadvantage of the working class officials employees and small
owners and all other persons with more or less fixed income
Thus we see that though Europe has been thrown back for
number of decades with reference its material resources the
nensficaon of the social contradictions has only not retro
graded been suspended Dut ha on the contrary assumed
particular acuteness.
This cardinal fact u.s. of ITSELF sufficient dspe any illusions
of the possibility of lasting and peaceful development undey
democratic form of Government The social differentiation
proceeding along the line of economic decline peetenes the
most intense convue and cruel nature OF the class struggle
The present crisis only continuation OF ae destructive
work done by the and the postbeum speculative BOOM
Owing fact that agricultural products havesen in price,
the have accumulated large amount OF cheap
money This produced the illusion that the villages were prosper
ous The farmers did, indeed succeed in paying off in paper
money the debts they had contracted in currency at its face
value But the webeng of the farmer not to bebrought about
merely by settling mortgages The lack Of labor the dnu
ton of CATTLE the scarcity of ertsers and t high cost of
manufactured products brought European agriculture into state
of complete decline
On the other hand the universal mpoershnt of Europe
rendering incapable of purchasing the necessary amount of
American Canadian resulted getting te farming in
dusry of the countries into crtca situation The
ruin of the peasants and small farmers gongon only
Europe but also the United States Canada Argentine and
Australia and South Africa The capital newly cquired during
the being used for buying up country estates The village
is being dsssessated pFoearsed and and is be-
coming the hot-bed Of discomfort.
Owing to the fall Of the purchasing power Of mney the posi-
on of State and private employees has, as rule become even
than that Of the proetarans This condition is tending
go in the Having lost their usual stability the
middle and lower officials are becoming the facbrs of political
unrest and undermine the Government apparatus which they
called upon This middle state which has been
regarded by the Reomists the buwark of conservatism
IN the present transitional period becoming facf of revolution
Capitalist Europe has completely lost its dominating position
in the world economy But just this domination that had
lent some relative equilibrium between its social dasse All the
efforts OF the European countries England and bay Fance)
to restore former conditions only tend to intensity their nsta
biity and dsorganization.
While the concentration of wealth going on i'll Europe has
s foundations IN the runous conditions Of that Continent in
the United States the concentration property and the extreme
ntensaon Of class distinctions are proceeding bn the basis
Vne evefh growth OF capitalist accumulation class srug
gle going American soil has assumed an extremely tense
revolutionary character owing the sharp vasbations pro
duced by the general instability of the world market The period
OF unprecedented rise of capitalism bound Ito be followed
by an extraordinary rise of revolutionary struggled
The emigration of workers peasants acrosI the ocean ha
always served safetyva to the capitalist regime in Eu
rope grew during prolonged periods of depression and upor
unsuccessful revolutionary outbreaks At present however Amer
N ana Australia are putting evergrowng obstacles in the
OF emigration Thus this sayvave so necessary TO the captal
'' regime mas ceased 10 exist The vigorous development
capitalism in the East particularly in India and in China ha
created new social foundations for the revolutionary struggle
Inc oOeeoSe Oh the Eastern countries has bound up its fat
even more closely with foreign capital and has Thus become
very important weapon Of capitalist domination The contest be
tween this bourgeois and foreign imperialism is the contest of
competitor against his stronger rival and is by its yer
~ 0iNS nan hearIed and unreal The evelopment of tn
native proetarat paraySes the ter
~ ue captast Dourgeoisle At the same time the grea
- e peasants Oh tne oriental countries look upon tn
l. Communist vanguard as their real Header This
particularly true Of the progressive elemnt Of hes
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- s: .olatoh Oh he military nationaist4 oppression
- ot; '' o the capitalist exploitation by foreign an
10 native Dougeose and the survvas of the feda
creating the conditions in which the immature nar;at Of "
90 must develop rapidly and take the lead in Il
se feVouuonary movement of the peasant masses
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