The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27
Submitted by JOSEPH BRANDY
The International Development.

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industrial capital and working popula-
ton.
2. The latest phase Of social and
political development is international
Imperialism. The United States with
half the worlds gold supply and power
equipment in its possession, with
world net debt of many billion dollars
in its favor, is commanding directly
many important colonial and semi-col-
onial territories: Latin America, espe-
cially the sections around the Car
ibean Sea, possessions in the Pacific
Ocean, and in way also Germany
8. England and France, owing to
the United States several billion dol
lars, are exercising internationally the
functions of national industrial cap
ital, under the overlordship of the
United States as the International
fnance-capitalist power. In the cap
itallst world outside of United States,
England and France represent with
their armies, navies, air force, mer-
chant marine, mining and metallurgy
more than half of these important
elements Of International political
economy. They have under their
direct influence Australia, nearly all
of Africa, half of Asia, and most OF
Central Europe; their indirect influ-
ence goes further.
4. The colonial and semi-colonial
countries represent internationally the
units corresponding to the working
population within the state.
5. The U. S. S. r. (SoViet Russia)
breaks into this international econ
omy as politically independent and
economically more and more self-sus-
tanning unit Of one-twelfth of the
worlds population upon one-sixth of
the worlds surface It represents the
political economy of the prletariat and
its revolution, as against the one Of
capitalist imperialism and its reaction
and counterreYolution
6. Imperfectly but definitely we see
international organizations developing
as the equivalent of national political
parties, with like tendency to con-
centrate: al The western allies sup
RENE war council; the Amsterdam
Trade Union International; the Sec
ond (SOcialist) International; the
League Of Nations with the World
Court. aa) The Central Powers; the
216 International (recruited largely
from these states. (rhe units of group
aa) have merged or are merging into
group al J. By The Pan-American Con-
ference 90. S. Az; the Pan-American
Federation of Labor "a. F. of L.): the
Dawes commission. q The difficulty
Ia the rapproachement between groups
AZ and b is impeded by the fact that
the capitalist center of gravity of
these groups would be in group b)
and the labor center in group az 81
The U. S. S. R., the C. I. the r. I.
L. u, the Peasants and Farmers Inter
national. ID The tendencies of the
capitalist elements within this series
to coalesce at times and to some de-
gree. as against the labor elements,
has its counter part, e. g. in American
politics where we have farm bIocs, the
z. p. ?. A., etc, OF republicans and
democrats; foreshadowing a re-align-
ment upon inevitable economic lines
as against the original purely organ
national lines.
2. The acuteness Of the class strug-
gle both on the national and inter
national scale is driving the world
forces Of both, reaction and reyolu-
ton, into more intense preparation for
the coming conflict The present per-
iod does not give either of the two
forces substantial net gain in the
capitalist countries; II represents gen.
orally a quick succession Of victory
and defeat on both. the economic and
political field.