The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17

| continued from rage one
cial democratic ministers in Russia
from 1917 EDWARDS, however,
showed that they served the inter
ests of the bourgeoisie exclusively
against the proletariat. The social
democrats declare that we are pro-
voking war because we discuss its
possibility and warn the workers
against it. (Laughter.) Our pro-
gram is against the imperialist war,
for proletarian class unity, against
the capitalists and social democrats
and for socialism.
Continues Marxism.
"Leninism is not an addition to
! Marxism but it's continuation and
development. Lenin did not intro
duce one atom that was not Marxlst
into the theory of the proletarian
Revolution. In opposing the re-
formist nonsense concerning ASA
tic Communism, we declare that
| Leninism is the most orthodox
Marxism.
lit is impossible to deal in this
speech with all the problems dis
eussed in the commission, but Sui
tansades attacks regarding finance
capital must be answered. sultan
saue thinks ne is attacking hllterd-
ing, but IN reality ne is attacking
Lenln who held the same view re-
gardlng the origin OF finance CAPT
tai.
With regard to the problem of
ultra-imperalism, II would be
wrong 10 deny entirely the possibu-
lty OF a Worldwide trust. however,
its affirmation IS only posslDle
wnen the class struggle IS ignored.
Ultra-imperiaIism Is Impossible IN
practice. BY supporting the League
OF Nations, the social democrats are
lighting Tor ultra-mperlallsm.
The draft program stresses the
parasitic sides OIL capitalism, these
parasitic sides, however, are not de-
cisive. Capitalism Will not collapse
in consequence of parasitlsm but as
a result of the lntensification OF
contradictions leading to conflicts.
Our program must deal in detail
with this in order to refute the So
cial democratic idea of an organ
lied, non-anarchist capitalism. The
social roots of reformism have var
led bases. The aristocracy of labor
is not explained simply by colonial
surplus profits but also by the CAPT
talist differential profit, for exam
pie: when a highly developed coun-
try, like the United States, can ex-
plot backward countries on the ba-
sis of a simple commodity exchange.
THE United States pockets the
best part of the worlds surplus pro-
fit today, hence the American prole-
tariat is the most conservative in
the world
"The decline of British capitalism
resulted in the decline of the in
fluence of the reformists. The
popularity of imperialism is that it
first lays the basis for the social
imperialist theology and afterwards
smashes that basis by intensified
ton of lbs own contradictions.
Fascism.
"The discussion on fascism showed
two extreme divergences; first there
is a tendency to describe all attacks
on the workers as fascism; second
there is the declaration that fascism
is impossible in highly developed
countries. The truth, however, is
that fascism is a special form of
reaction characterized by the utili-
cation of the petty bourgeois pea
SAINT masses appearing at a certain
stage of capitalist decline. There
fore there is no fascism in the
United States and only the begin
nings of it in Great Britain.
Regarding the relations of the
social democracy with fascism: I'M
doubtedly the former is developing
towards social fascism, but there are
only tendencies and not a finished
process. Fascism and social demo-
cracy must not be identified.
Land Naturalization.
Regarding the question of ma
tionalization of land, Renaud Jean
has discovered a contradiction be-
tween the non-inmediate nationaIi.