The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-14

sistant of America, England. The
European countries have not yet be.
come colonies, they are continuing
with the exploitation of their own
colonies, but they have fallen into the
greatest possible financial dependence
upon America. And here is one Of
the chief reasons for the uncertainty
Of the present sterilization of Europ-
can capitalism.
WITH regard to the second catego-
w ry of the contradictions of capital
ism, the development of industry and
of the proletariat in the colonial coun-
tries is decisive, and, particularly in
the postwar period, the growth Of
the national revolutionary movement
and the general crisis in the world
dominance of capitalism. The great
powers are faced with the loss Of the
colonial hinterland. In Morocco, in
Syria and in China, the revolutionary
movement takes the form of a direct
anti-imperialists war and endangers
the capitalist sterilization. The bour-
geois press flatters the Bolsheviks
when it declares that we have
caused the colonial crisis. Unfor-
tunately, we. are not strong enough
to assist directly all colonial countries
in their fight for emancipation. The
true cause of this crisis lies in the
fact that the European countries, in
debted to America are increasing the
exploitation of their colonies and this
inevitably intensifes the revolution
airy movement in the colonies and in
the dependent countries and intensi-
flies the general crisis.
WITH regard to the first category
w of the contradictions of capital
ism, European capitalism has partial
ly achieved a sterilization and the
conquest of power by the proletariat
ts not a topical question there, but in
the colonies, the crisis has reached its
eliminating point and the expulsion
of Imperialism from various colonies
is actually a topical day to day ques-
ton.
WITH regard to the contradiction
w between the victorious and the
defeated states, this expresses itself
in the new method of exploitation of
the defeated states thru the Dawes
plan, the consequences of which show
themselves in a deterioration of the
economic situation of Germany in the
bankruptcy of various concerns, in
the increases of unemployment, etc.
For the German people, the Dawes
plan means a double pressure:
The pressure of the German bourge-
oisie upon the German proletariat, and
the pressure of foreign capital upon
the whole German people. In this
connection, the further consequences
Of the Dawes plan will lead inevitably
to revolutionary explosion in Ger
many.
America wishes to ensure the capa-
city of Germany to pay by an exploit
alton by Germany of the Russian
market. But in this one has not ask
ed the Soviet Union at all, and the
latter is not prepared to develop into
an agricultural country, not even for
the benefit of Germany. On the con-
trary, 1t wishes to develop into an
industrial country.
The Dawes plan has feet of clay.
Locarno is the continuation of Yer
sailles, Locarno means simply the
maintenance of the status quo ante,
the maintenance of the existing from
tiers of Germany in favor of Poland
and France. To believe that the
strengthening Germany will remain
content with this, is to believe in a
wonder. Just as the solution of the
question of Alsace and Lorraine after
the Franco-Prussian war was one Of
the chief reasons of the imperialist
war, so also will Versailles and its Lo-
carno continuation which sanctions
the loss of Upper Silesia and the
Dancing corridor by Germany, the
loss of Ukrainian Galicia and West
Volyhinia by West White Russia and
the loss Of Wilma by Lithuania, etc,
that is to say, which create a new
complex of contradictions, share the
fate of the Franco-Prussian treaty.
Just as the Dawes plan carries the
revolution in Germany within itself
so also does Locarno carry the next
imperialist war within itself.
EDITORS NOTE:-The continue
ton If Stains speech in tomorrow's
ISSUE viii present proof showing
that the peace treaties made after
Europe's wars always carry the ele-
ments of future wars.
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