The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-07-29
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL EDU-
CATION
CONTINUED from last week
Is. WHAT ARE IMPERIALIsT WARS?

Is. WHAT ARE INIPERIALIST WARS?
These are wars which are carried on by the fin
ancs capital of the bourgeois states with the aim
of Selling and subjecting to themselves foreign
lands and other peoples of securing in them mark
cts for sale and sources of raw materials cheap
labor power and also places for the most advantg-
eous export and investment Of their superfluous
capital Generally the small and colonial peoples
and countries first subjected to conquest, and
then the robbery and seizures by the strongest
plunderers are extended also to the big states
For the carrying-on of the great wars alliances
Of imperialist powers are formed. The most i'm
portant examples are the ruined and destroyed
Central European alliance (the former alliance of
Germany and Austria etc. and the Entente that
plundered it ENGLAND, France, etc. In the
center of each of the alliances stands one or two
of the biggest imperalist powers, which thru war,
by force Of arms, solve their conflicts and contra
dctions of interest on the basis of struggle for
world mastery. Thus in the war of 1914-1918, at
the head of one alhancet-the Entente stood
England who in alliance with France and Tsarist
Russia played the chief roe while in the center of
the opposite alliance stood Germany the finance
capital of which was striving for world mastery
and clashed over this with its rival-English cap
Onies. The imperialist war was, at bottom a
struggle between the two chief imperialisms the
German and the English, of which the latter, as
is known, emerged the victor
The great imperialist war of 1914-1918 had its
precursors in the wars for the colonies Such
was the Spanish-American war of 1898 over Cuba
and the Philippines, and also the English-Boer war
at the beginning of the 10th centuary when "Dem-
nor
Boer republics in South Africa Such were the
camapign of the civilized powers against China,
the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 over Manchuria,
Port Arthur and Korea; the Italo-Turldsh war
of 1912 lover the seizure of the colony Tripoi
in Africa), etc.
&c. WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
BIG IMPERIALIST WARS?
Colossal destruction, ruination, and exhaustion
of the waring states, which is explained by the
traordinaryly highly developed engineering and
riches in the period of finance capital The great
lmperialist wars shake the whole world, carry off
tens Of millions Of victims and subject humanity
to world of fortunes and deprivations.
u. UPON WHOM DO THE RULE OF FINANCE
CAPITAL AND IMPERIALISM WEIGH
MOST HEAVILY, AND IN WHAT MAN
NER?
Upon the broadest masses of the toilers and
first of all upon the situation and fate of the
working class. On the economic field the latter
are rendered powerless before the closely united
ruling gangs of the biggest capitalists of each
country based upon the military.
The policy of Imperialism initiates the nom pro-
ductive expenditures of the government unbelieve-
ably, and lays heavy burden upon the broad mas
ses of the population, in the form of continually
increasing taxes.
Finally the colossal wars destroy and multllate
tens OF millions from the ranks Of the working
class and peasantry and cause tremendous des-
rructlon Of the productive forces in the big states
Continued next week.