The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-13

far-reaching crisis and a growing in
stability of international capitalism.
Although the temporary postwar
crisis of 1920-21 with its internal
chaos and decay of the foreign
trade connections among the capital
ist countries may be considered to
have passed and a period of partial
sterilization has ensued, the main
crisis of capitalism, which has be-
come apparent in view of the victory
of the October revolution and the
secession in the Soviet Union from
the capitalist system of economy, has
not only not been overcome but is
more and more pronounced and is
undermining the foundations of inter
national capitalism. The sterilization
has not only not prevented the devel-
opment of this main crisis of capital
ism, but has also furnished the
ground and the source for its further
development. The growing fight for
markets, the necessity of a redistribu-
ton of the world of the spheres of
influence, the breakdown of bourgeois
pacifism and the League of Nations,
the feverish work of creating new
coalitions and setting up of forces
for a new war, the insane piling up
of ornaments, the inhuman pressure
on the working class and the colonies,
the development of the revolutionary
movement in the colonies and in
Europe, the growing authority of the
Comintern throughout the world, and
finally the growing power of the So
Wet Union and its increasing author
ity among the workers of Europe and
the colonies, all these are facts which
must shake the very foundations of
international capitalism.
The sterilization of capitalism is
growing more and more rotten and
shaky.
If two years ago there was much
talk of the ebb of revolutionary activ-
ity in Europe, we have now every
reason to assert that Europe is now
obviously entering on a new phase of
revolutionary uprise. This quite apart
from the colonies, where the situation
Of the imperialists is growing more
and moro catastrophe.
(b) The hopes Of the capitalists OF
a capitalistic degeneration of the So
Wet Union and the sinking of its au-
thority among the workers of Europe
and the colonies have been doomed to
disappointment. The Soviet Union
grows and develops as the country
of socialist construction. Its influ-
ence with the workers and peasants
of all the world increases and deep
ems. The existence of the Soviet
Union as country engaged in build
ing up socialism is one of the greatest
factors making for the decay of world
Imperialism and the undermining of
it's stability both in Europe and in
the colonies. The Soviet Union is
obviously becoming the hope of the
European workers and the oppressed
colonial peoples.
So as to prepare the ground Tor
future imperialist wars and so as to
strengthen the capitalist hinterland
by vet more thoroughly gagging and
lettering the workers at home and
the native population in the colonies,
the first step is the sabjugatlon OF
the Soviet Union, that focus and
stronghold of revolution, which is at
the same time one of the greatest
markets for the produce of the cap
jtalist countries. Hence the revival
of the intervention policy in capitalist
circles. Hence the policy of isolating,
of encircling the Soviet Union and
that of creating all premises for wag-
ing war on the Soviet Union.
The growth of the intervention ten
denotes in the camp of the imperial
lists and the danger of war against
the Soviet Union are two of the most
characteristic facts of the present
situation.
1t is the British bourgeoisie which
is most threatened by the imminent
crisis of capitalism, and it is this
same bourgeoisie which has seized
the initiative with view to strength
ening the tendency of Intervention.
1t is obvious that the support of
the British miners by the workers Of
the Soviet Union and the sympathies
Of the Soviet working class with the
revolutionary movement in China
could but cast oil on the fire. All
these facts called forth the rupture
between Great Britain and the Soviet
Union and the worsening of our rela-
tons with a number of other states.
(c) In consequence thereof the
fight between two tendencies in the
relations of the capitalist world and
the Soviet Union, the tendency, Of bel
licose aggressiveness, mainly on the
5. Concludin