The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-22

to the world commercial crisis Of the
period" What is there In this to con-
tradict my statement Nothing. On
the contrary, It merely serves to bear
out my contention that the same gem
eral factors which had caused Europ-
can capitalism to boil over" took
effect In the United States, later and
In necessarily modified form.D
My critic goes on to say that the
'class peace" that followed 1894 was
only relative. which of course. II was
-altho 1t was marked enough for
every outstanding writer on American
labor history to take note Of 1t. His
comment on this is that the relative
''class peace twas caused by the ex-
pansion due to monopoly growth and
other factors. :" My only answer
is that this is exactly what I have
been maintaining.
But, says Wolfe, this "class peace"
rs not the kind of peace to which
Lenin's quotation on peaceful period
refers" Here l must begin to differ
with my critic again. Relative "class
peace" within a country Is naturally
not all that is meant by the term,
-so-called peaceful period of capital
ism"-indeed it may continue to pre-
vail long after the nation in question
is embarked on imperialist wars, as /
think l have already shown. Never
theless, the relationship between
"class peace" and the so-called peace
full period" as a whole is of funda-
mental importance. l refer my critic
to the various quotations from Lenin
which have given above.
WTOLFE blithely misrepresents me
w as having said in my article that
the peaceful period in the United
States, when strikes lessened in
scope, number and intensity, was
purchased at the expense of the back
ward and undeveloped countries of
Asia, Africa and Latin America, thru
the policy of imperialism"
What l did say was:
I'm Europe, the socialdemocratic
parties built themselves into mass or
CARNATIONS. The peaceful period of
capitalism" was an international phe-
nomenon. as Lenin has shown us. 1t
was purchased at the expense of the
backward and undeveloped countries
of Asia, Africa and Latin America,
thru the policy of imperialism.
II might be reasonably objected that
the word imperialism is used some
what loosely here, but the import of
the above sentences is clearly quite
different from what Wolfe's misquot-
alton implies. If my critic questions
that the so-called peaceful period"
was purchased at the expense of the
backward countries, it would be well
for him to re-read the following al
ready quoted passage from Bukhar-
in:
Following the revolutionary
epoch of the middle of last century,
an entirely different historic epoch
in the development of the capital
list system set in. 1t was the epoch
OF the gigantic growth of capital
ism. This growth was chiefly based
upon the colonial policy of the bour-
geoisie, and the stupendous deveIop-
ment of continental industry which
was chiefly stimulated by the ex-
-ploitation Of the colonial peoples"
ITO Comrade Wolfe's superfluous in
= formation that the world did not
enjoy peace in the years proceeding
1914" and his insulting assurance
that the Hague conferences were on
ly the plaster on the ulcer" | find It
unnecessary to reply except to say
that they are in the same class with
his nasty insinuation to the effect that
believe the so-caIled "miner" wars
count for nothing because they were
waged against black and yellow men
and not between whites.
Comrade Wolfe finds fault with my
explanation Of how super-proflts ara
wrung from the colonies and semi-coi-
onies. maintained IN my article that
In the last analysis super-profit NAV