The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-26
On War and Danger Of War

IN peace llnle ana III wartime.
(a).-To form a permanent reliable
service to be used for the suppression
of the revolutionary movement that
may arise during the war or at its
conclusion.
(b).-In the event of mobilization
to drive the masses to war at the
point of the bayonet
/ (c).-To form ready prepared ca
dres in the existing armies in the
event of imperialist wars.
! A serious factor in strengthening
the capitalist rear guard in case Of
war is also the work carried on
amongst women by the nationalist
parties and fascist organizations,
| which take into account the womens
role in the economic machine in case
of war G.e., in the munition factories,
agriculture, transport, administra-
ton, etc).
Is. Every imperialist war is prim-
arily war against the working class
land the toiling masses. 1t abolishes
all liberties. strengthens immensely
/ the apparatus for exploitation and the
machinery for the suppression of the
working class struggle. But the war
against the Soviet Union will be
special war. 1t will be a war directed
against the working class and Com
munism all over the world and prim-
against the Communist Parties which
the bourgeoisie is already enacting
are calculated to clear the way for
war, and to give the bourgeoisie
free hand. The bourgeoisie will en-
deavor to eXterminate the most active
sections Of the proletariat.
This is clearly proved by the fight
which is already in progress against
Communism. By the hand of Chang
Tso-lin and Chang Kai-shek, it is
strangling and shooting Communists
lin the most barbarous manner in
China. 1t is assassinating them in
Italy in America. 1t is shoot
ing them down in the Balkans, in
Roumania, in Bulgaria and in Poland
and Lithuania. 1t brings charges
against Communists for espionage in
Czecho-Slovakia. In France it brings
charges against them of being agents
Of foreign government and is pre-
pairing new campaign of persecu-
lions against them. Scores are being
sent to penal servitude in Germany
and Hungary.
If in imperialist wars the bour-
geoisie tramples under foot all Gin
ternational agreements" which set
limit to barbarous methods of war,
then in super imperialist war, the
class war against the Soviet Union
and the insurrectionary colonial peo-
pies, it is sure to make use of the
, most terrible means for the exter-
mination of the toiling masses. The
masses of the workers must now by
this time clearly realize the counter
revolutionary character of the war
preparations of the bourgeoisie.
The Growth of Militarism.
a. simultaneously with the meas
ures being taken to strengthen the
rear, the mobilization has taken place
of all resources for the war front.
, Militarism is growing from day to
! day. War budgets are increasing lex
penditure on ornaments has almost
, doubled). The war industry has grown
to monstrous dimensions. Having ex-
hausted its resources of man power,
modern capitalist armies are concen-
trating all attention upon the tech
uical perfection of the war machine.
The number of machine guns per unit,
the range of artillery fire, the car
>rying capacity of aeroplanes, the ef-
fective radius of exploding bombs
have all increased; one-man tanks
> have been introduced, new poison
! gases are being invented. Special in
) flammable material is being invented,
which when projected is capable of
destroying whole regiments and di-
q visions; preparations are being made
for the so-called germ war for spread
ing contagious diseases among the
enemy troops, etc.
/ Is. Future war will be mechan-
d lied war. Every country will be con-
verted into an enormous factory for
e the manufacture of the means Of ex-
: termination. The motor will occupy
: the decisive place in this murder ma
t chine. But precisely because military
Y technique has reached such a high
: stage of development the capitalist
states will be obliged to throw enor-
: nous numbers Of men in the theatre
? of military operations. For these aims
Z the capitalist states are reorganizing
: their armies through the militariza-
: ton of the entire population, in addi-
S ton to the extensively developed per-
f manent cadres. Owing to the extern
S sive employment of aviation, the de-
: structive power in modern bombs, the
e extensive range of artillery, the line
+ of demarcation between the front and
the rear will be obliterated. The fu-
Y ture war with all it's consequences
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