The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-25

tensified and the Comintern Sec
tons in all imperialist countries are
Immediately confronted with the
danger of being driven under
ground" into complete illegality.
A. In this situation of increased
ornaments and extensive prepara-
tions for imperialist wars, the bour-
geoisie and the petty bourgeois pa
cifists seek, by means of hypocriti-
cal speeches, to deceive the toiling
masses as to the real facts of the
situation, and under the cloak of
pacifism, and peace" policy, sys-
tematically strive to turn them in
favor of the struggle against the
Soviet Union. The battle-cry of the
coming war against the Soviet Union
will be: "The war for peace! Down
with Bolshevism, the destroyer of
civilization"
The speeches of the bourgeoisie
and their social democratic and
petty bourgeois pacifist accomplices,
about disarmament, security, arbi-
tration courts, outlawry of war as
an instrument of national policy,
ETC., are examples of the worst. hy-
pocrisy.
The League of Nations, founded
nine years ago as an imperialist al
lance in defense of the robber
peace" of Versailles, and for the
suppression of the revolutionary
movement of the world, is itself
more and more becoming a direct
instrument for the preparation and
carrying through of war against the
Soviet Union. The alliances and
pacts created under the protectorate
of the League of Nations are direct
means for camouflaging war prep
arations, and are themselves instru-
ments for the preparations for war,
especially war against the Soviet
Union.
5. The imperialists are only able
to carry on their war policy thanks
to the active collaboration of inter-
national social democracy. The re-
formists were exposed as social pa
triots and chauvinists already by
the world war of 1914-1918. Since
then, the policy of social democracy
has ripened into open social imper-
ialism. In all decisive questions,
the leaders of social democracy and
of the Amsterdam trade unions have
not only become the defenders, but
the active champions of imperial
ism. They have developed their
greatest activity in support of the
imperialist war preparations against
the Soviet Union.
The course adopted by the re-
formist leaders towards deepening
the split in the camp of the labor
movement by sharpened offensive
against the Communist movement
and by their active splitting tactics
in the trade unions and proletarian
mass organizations Germany, Great
Britain), serves, like their defeatist
strategy in big economic struggles,
to strengthen the bourgeoisie, to
weaken the battle positions for the
proletariat, and, in this way, to pre-
pare the conditions in which the
bourgeoisie may embark on a new
imperialist war. The proletariat
must closely study the methods by
which social democracy is preparing
ideologically for the war against the
Soviet Union. Some of these meth
DDS are: (a) dissemination of lies
about "red imperialism" and "red
militarism," about the identify of
fascism and Bolshevism," etc.; (b)
the claim that the dictatorship of
the proletariat is the cause of war,
or one of the causes of war; (e)
the hypocritical attitude that eve
are for the support of the Soviets,
but against the Communists and the