The producers news., 1927-07-15
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL EDU.
CATION
CONTINUED from last week.

NOOAA"AAANSA
Thus, in the interests of heavy industry and in
the first order, of metallurgy, the policy of mod
ern Imperialism is dictated; and metallurgy is in
terested more than any other branch of economy,
for the sake of supplying itself with coal and met
al as well with the aim of selling its commod-
ties, in the augmenting of imperialism, in the
sharpening of international relations in the arous
ing and preparation of imperialist wars which
increase more than ever the prodigious riches of
the kings of heavy industry, and in particular,
the kings of iron and steel
%. THROUGH WHAT TWO STAGES DOES
IMPERIALISM PASS?
At first finance capital of each imperialist state
accomplishes its aims without resorting directly
to force of arms and war; acting chiefly thru com
petition, but it is not long before finance capital
turns into military Imperialism, taking recourse
to wars and relying upon a policy of militarism
and navalism.
The entrance of finance capital upon the path
of warning imperialism, struggling by means of
arms and wars Cor the threat of war; is perfectly
natural in view of the embitted struggle which
the capitalist robbers carry on among themselves
for the grabbing of foreign countries and the
subJection of the peoples particularly in the So
called colonies, l. e., countries hardly touched or
still quite untouched by capitalism and possessing
tremendous natural riches.
The struggle for colonies for the conquest of
new lands and the enslavement of other peopes
becomes more acute by reason of the fact that
soon after the appearance of finance capital in
the l8oOs, the whole world was seen to have al
ready been seized and divided up among the bio-
gest and Oldest bourgeois states, and the other
mperlalist plunderers who came late to this rob
berry, had to resort to wars and forces of arms in
order to tear away the remnants or to extend for
themselves one or another little warm place in
the sun.
Altogether the so-called "great powers" of cap
ltalist Europe from 1876 to 1914 had seized for
eign lands amounting to about 25 million square
Nlometers, l. e., nearly twice the area of all
Europe.
Most OF all was grabbed by England and
France-great territories with hundreds of mil
lions OF population in all parts of the world. Ac
cordlng to figures dating before the war of 1914.
the colonies of England were about 100 times as
big as England itself; the French colonies about
~ times as big France. After the imperiaIist
war of 1914-1918 and the ruin of GERMANY and
austria, the colonial plunder of England and
France grew still greater
Altogether, six great powers toward 1914 had
10 million square hlometers of home lands with .
population of 437 millions, and 81 million souara
k1lometers, e., five times as much. stolen colonial
lands with population of about $50 millions. and
only on account of the final partition and re-
parVlton OF the world do these gigantic robber
states now fight amongst themselves
With the latter half of the COS beoins the
IF fbn seizure OF colonies by the chief countries
laho acquired" land amounting to fo1r noiII;eon
:4u"le klomeCers with population of 60 million
e. an area ~ times bigger that the whole of
1oo5 T1 WIN It's 70 million prewar population In
aoI0 Engiand occupied the River Niger district
ana part of East Africa Tn 1907 4 o,oos doo
i!l1o A.rica and IN 1899 annexes the Boer rennh
nc Whicn had been formed in South Africa hv
I Tu1cn eInlgrants In 1904 England receives from
exchange for this France plundors od +Io o
session OF Morocco). In 1913 England occunies tba
city OF Kovait in the Persian Cuf which ie oeettino
ready 20 build the Berlin-Bagdad railway thru Per-
3no ru1ogeCnef england seized colonies nearly
lUg u ClmeS Degger than its own territory.
Ihe other countries also NOT backward in the
BUSINESS OF grabbing colonies Germany in 1885
seized German East Africa, in 1897 German s w
1aIca, 1odo New Guinea, Kamerun and Samoa In
1oS5, Germany as a result of tha general robbery
OF China, receives Kiau-Chau The colonies If
0ermany were five times as bio as the mother
eoooonueIy. france IN 1885 occupied the Congo: in
m Io9p appropriated Madagascar; in 1904, Morocco;
IA lyl5 extends its influence in SYRIA, etc. The
soi4hal 80 3 territories Of France were rs times as big
ones ro ll1Sner country Little Belgium owned col
OF It's own country.
d;,Gi EGr were America and Japan backward in this
tbe tfbbeiangup Of the world America, in 1894 after
isIandgaTryd dc1oTy over over China takes in the Hawaiian
1928 America continues the 'lr robberv and brings
Port Iper its control the Philippine Islands, Cuba
= ortO Kco and in 1900 other islands also Japan,
the R iYoO after the war with Russia, seized Korea
Tb,1a bpelnnsuia aE li OF Lao-Img and Manchuria
pig lmperialst countries had divided up the whole
and @Oiio amongst themselves for robbery, oppression
Continued next week.