The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-25
Program of the Communist international
FIFTH woRLD

bourgeoisie Of dafDeuems branches OF
industry to Uuits, also gives riss 10
substantial changes in the type Gf
competitive struggle. instead az Conn
peting by means OF low prices, there
is growing tendency to use force
openly: boycotts and other forms of
pressure within the country itself;
high protective duties, tariff wars, the
employment of armed force backed by
state power-in international rela-
tions. This increasing acuteness of
competition is, in international eco
nomic relations, largely due to two
facts: first to the general division of
the colonies among the greatest capt.
talist states; secondly, to the extra
ordinary increase in the export of
capital, accompanied by the increased
endeavor to occupy anc control the
territories fully to which the exported
capital flows.
Under such conditions state power
and its armed forces assume a Sc
cal significance for the bourgeoisie.
The policy of finance capital is direct
ed to rapacious activity of the utmost
intensity (imperialism). requiring
enormous reinforcemehvs FOR armies,
air fleets, and every description Of
means Of humiliation. The gigantic
development of competition is one Of
the causes of the increasing acuteness
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in disastrous wars.
The process Of the Capitalization Of
capital on world scale has thus led
to the creation of great powers of
finance capital, which have become the
center Of the capitalist pressure ex-
tending thruout the world, of the CAPT
talist predatory raids, and Of the ex-
ploitation and enslavement Of enorm-
Gus numbers of proletarian, semi-pro-
letarian, and peasant elements. The
weaker bourgeois states exist in direct
or indirect dependence on these
mighty powers, and are at their mercy.
A definite object for enslaYement and
exploitation is supplied by the colo
MES, which possess hundreds OF mil
lions Of working and exploited inhabi-
tants.
There are two main forces being
organized under the hegemony Of the
proletariat against the mighty organ
lied forces Of finance capital; the
workers Of the capitalist states, and
the peoples of the colonies oppressed
by foreign capital. The basic revoIu-
tionary tendency is, however, tempo
rarily paralyzed by the corruption of
considerable section of the Europ-
can and American proletariat by the
imperialist bourgeoisie. The oour-
geoisie Of the most powerful imperial
list states, which have reaped enorm-
Gus profits by plundering colonies and
semi-colonies, have raised the wages
of section of their own workers out
of the booty of their plumber, thereby
Interesting these workers in allegiance
to the imperialist "Fatherland" and
in its plunderings. This systematic
bribery has taken special effect among
the labor aristocracy (the workers in
the particularly privileged trades, the
highly skilled workers, the workers in
state and municipal enterprises, and
SO on), and among the leading bureau
cratic elements of the working class,
social-democracy and trade unions,
which have become absolute tools in
the hands of the bourgeoisie.
The keen competition among the
most powerful of the great powers for
the possession Of the colonies led to
the world war Of 1914. This war shook
the foundations of capitalist economies
to such an extent, rendered the posi-
ton Of the working class so much
worse, destroyed so many imperialistic
illusions among the proletariat, that
it introduced a new historic phase in
the disintegration Of capitalist produc-
ton, on world scale.
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