The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05

munist International and its sections
is more and more appreciated. In
1919 and 1920 the Communist parties
of Western Europe and America were
little more than active propaganda
committees. Today they are mighty
factors in advancing the world revo-
lution-a fact testified to by the press
of all the imperialist nations and their
vassals when it is forced to devote a
third of its space to threats, warnings
and war against the Communist In
ternational together with reports of
its activities.
THE fury of the capitalist govern
/ ments, their diplomats ana press,
their militarists and their reformist
batmen, is the best proof that the
Third Congress made no false estim-
alton of the trend of the struggle
when it said:
But it Is an undoubted mark Of
our time that the curve of the cap
ltallst evolution proceeds, thru tenn
porary rises, constantly downwards,
while the curve of revolution pro-
ceeds thru some vaciIIations con-
stantIy upwards.
| Look at the world situation today!
The Dawes plan, supported by the
Second International, is a desperate
defensive measure of world capital
ism. 1t has brought all of Western
Europe under the hegemony of Am
erican flnance-capital. With the ex-
ception of Great Britain every nation
al economy depends for even temper
airy stability upon the mercy Of the
house of Morgan.
IN Germany the working masses
/ have lost the last semblance of the
reforms that made the German work
ers before the war the best fed and
most docile working class in Europe
Germany, In spite Of all the outright
betrayals of the social democrats
their support of every government mo
matter how reactionary, is in chron-
ic crisis.
Italy and the Balkans are volcanoes
The government of France is habit
ually beggar on the doorstep of the
international bankers.
Great Britain has 100000 jobless
workers and her colonies are held to
the empire by chains which are loos-
ened every now and then and which
the British working class shows more
and more reluctance to repair.
China moves slowly but steadily
and With increasing speed, towards
complete independence of western
Imperialism and alliance with revolu-
tionary Russia.
Japan's workers and peasants have
become part of the world labor move
ment for the first time. 100000 un.
employed indicate a condition Of in.
dustrial chaos that makes for revo,
| luton.
THE threat Of war is constantly be-
/ fore the workers. Each capital
list nation arms and watches its
tneighbors. Inside the circle of Brit
ish-American imperialist rivalry a
dozen minor conflicts send up their
hell-broth steam.
On this matter too has the Com.
munist International spoken with pen
etrating clarity:
"In spite Of the fact that the late
war has furnished terrible evidence
that wars are unprofitabIe-a fact
lying at the bottom of bourgeois
and socialist paeifIsm-the process
Of political economic, theological
and technical preparation tor a new
war, Is going on at full speed all
thru the capitalist world. HumanI-
tartan anti-revoIutionary paclfism
has become an auxiliary force Of
militarism.
"Thes sociaI-democrats of every
variety and the Amsterdam lnterna-
tional of Trade Unions, who are
trying to make the workers of the
world believe that they ought to
adapt themselves to the economic
and political conditions resulting
from the war, are rendering the i'm
perlalist bourgeoisie most valuable
services in the matter Of preparing
new slaughter which threatens to
completely annlhiIIate civilization"
| CCARCELY any Of the spokesmer
- of the social-democracy have had
the temerity to announce openly their
belief in the Inevitably or continued
capitalist rule. They war on the rev
olution by methods much harder tc
combat in world where the Com
munist press is feeble compared &c
the capitalist press which is only toe
glad to give of its space to the coun
ter-revolutionists. They lie to the
workers about Soviet Russia, about
the Russian Communist Party, about
the dictatorship Of the workers anc
peasants and about the sections Of
the Communist International.
THEY dare not say that they hav,
l given up all hope of social chang,
but they deliberately discourage tn,
workers from waging war on capital