The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
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American countries there are vari-
Gus currents among US. / cannot
deal now with all the controversial
points. l would like, however, to
emphasize the point that from the
viewpoint of the development of
powerful national revolutions and
powerful agrarian revolutions
which most likely will reveal the
tendency to become transformed into
social revolutions, the whole gamut
of South American problems is as
Stunning increasing significance from
day to day.
The Negro Problem.
want to stress the Importance
of the Negro problem. The Comm
tern has already passed number of
resolutions on this question. Never
theless, it is a fact that the Parties
concerned have not yet paid the nee
essary attention to this issue. AL
most all Negro comrades say in ad-
dition, that the survivals of race
prejudice are still to be observed in
some parties. l do not deny this
fact. If on minor national issues,
there is friction within the Commu-
mist Parties, for instance in West
ern Europe, what reasons have we
to believe that great cultural and
radical distinctions leave no traces
upon the Communist Parties? Even
on the Commissions of the Comm
tern a wrong note is detected when
questions concerning the Negro
problem are discussed. l myself no
ticed this during a discussion on the
South African question. We must
put an end to this once and for all.
In our theses we must declare in
the name of the Comintern that it
is the duty of all our comrades to
adopt a correct policy on this ques-
ton and fight mercilessly against
the slightest manifestations of race
prejudice. The Negro problem must
not be studied merely from the point
of view of the situation in North
America, but also from the view
point of the situation in South At
RIGA, etc.
The Situation in India.
A few words on India. Some In
dian comrades raised some points
against me and | must reply. For
instance, Comrade Rasur objected
to my description of the present
economic situation in India. He re
GREETED that / did not say some
thing about the industrialization Of
India. l must state here that il
celebrating their theory of the ode
colonization" of India the India1
comrades sought support in a state
ment | made in the course of which
while I made no reference to the
de-colonization of India, 1 neverthe-
less, pointed to the large invest
ments of foreign capital to be OBJ.
served in India.
Is IL True IiidI lllduC flO iC1Ci
ence to the industrialization of In.
dia in my report? l may not have
employed the term industrialization
But I spoke of big capital invest
ments during the war and postwar
periods; is that no industrializa-
ton? However, this is not a de-
cisive factor in Analysing the pres
emit situation in India. A decisive
element is the following: Has the
policy of British imperialism
changed in regard to India or not?
Is there any change to be observed
in the economic policy of British
imperialism? l think the flow of
capital to India has greatly dimin-
ished of late. We no longer OBJ
serve the feverish investments of
capital; there is no longer an up
ward curve of large investments as
we saw before. That is why the
surging process of economic devel-
opment that was observed some time
ago is not observed now. Hence, the