The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-27

(The following article was written
by Comrade Bueha, IL years old, of
the Hammond Pioneers Group, after
attendance at five sessions of the
class in Elements Of Communism
held in Gary, Ind.)
ENIRST Of all, what is Imperialism?
Bukharin says, "The policy of con-
quest pursued by finance capital in
the struggle for markets and areas or
for the investments of capital is called
Imperialism.
Imperialism springs from finance
capital Finance capital could and
can pursue no other policy than that
OF conquest, violence, and war. Every
country ruled by finance capital
wishes to get resources and make it a
world kingdom in which handful of
capitalists belonging to the victorious
nation will rule.
In early days England dreamt of a
British empire all over the world.
Now they boast that "the sun never
sets on British colonies" England
now owns many of her most impor-
tant colonies in Asia and Africa. Eng
land has been able to unite it's colonial
empire from Cape to Egypt, Arabia to
India, and the most important en-
frances to the world seas are now in
her possession.
The capitalists of England send
their machinery, railroads and other
steel goods to the colonies to make
profits, not for the purpose of helping
that colony. The capitalists of Eng
land are interested to have the colo
MES of Asia and Africa under their
possession because they won't have to
pay the workers such high wages as
in the mother country; in this way
making more profits. When war
breaks out England will also have
many workers from the colonies to
fight for them.
Native capitalism has developed in
the East. When it developed young
labor movement also developed there.
The native capitalists of the East
would like to be free from the i'm
perialists of England, so they could
make more profits. AS tool against
the imperialists the native capitalists
use the labor movement. In spite of
this the labor movement in the back
ward countries is developing.
If a revolution between the native
capitalists and the imperialists should
break out the workers Of the colonies
and Of the home country should help
it out, because If the mother country
is defeated the workers of the colonies
would be stronger against the native
capitalists.
Besides the English Imperialism
spreading, American Imperialism is
also spreading. One of the most i'm
portant weapons that America is u.s.
ing in her struggle for resources is
the Monroe doctrine" which says
that no European powers can make
any possession in America. This
leaves the United States to get all
the resources in both of the Americas.
America has already got foothold
in Latin-America by owning the Canal
Zone. In South America resources are
also being grabbed by the American
imperialists. In Chile they are slowly
but surely grasping the nitrate beds.
In Peru they are getting the meat and
wheat, and in Brazil the coffee and
rubber plantations.
.NETTING all of this from South
VI America, our imperialists go to
Europe and Asia, where in China they
get hold of the railway system. In
Mesopotamia they are driving for the
oil.
In Europe they are trying to turn
Austria into a coolie colony. Leaving
Europe, our capitalists go even into