The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30

position of international social de-
mocracy toward the League of Ma
tons, wisconsin, the Kellogg Pact,
the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan,
and so on. In all of these interna-
tional social democracy has support
ed the whole line of the world pol
icy of imperialism.
Aids War Preparations.
Already in 1926 the Marseilles
Congress of the Second Information
al officially stated that world Boil
shevism, that the proletarian revolu-
ton, is the greatest menace, the
greatest danger to peace. Now the
position occupied by German social
democracy-with the prime minister
of Germany, Mueller, social demo-
crat-in Europe is based upon the
western orientation of the German
bourgeoisie, that is, upon the readi-
ness of Germany to be an economic
ana technical ally of the big impe-
rialist powers in their war against
Soviet Russia. The program adopt
ed by the German social democratic
party at its last convention is pro-
gram of war against Soviet Russia.
Take the French socialist party
you know the role played by such
leaders as Paul Boncour and others,
with the knowledge and permission
of their party, in the greater pre-
paredness for wsr with the concur
renee of French militarism. In gen.
eral, it is possible to say that inter-
national social democracy is ideolog
ically preparing for war against the
Soviet Union and is direct, open
instrument of imperialism in the
preparation of such war.
The same shameful role is played
by small groups of renegades from
Communism, beginning with Brand
Ter and Trotsky, who still continue
their propaganda against Soviet
Russia, with the propaganda OF
"Thermidor," that is, with an at
tempt to prove to the workers OF
the world that there is no longer a
proletarian dictatorship in Russia;
which can only mean that, if the
imperialists attack the Soviet Union,
the workers of the world have moth
ing to do with the Soviet Union.
That is the counter-revolutionary
meaning of this propaganda.
Lovestone Aids Attack on USSR.
In the United States, this coun-
ter-revolutionary propaganda against
Soviet Russia is carried out by the
Lovestones. 1t is necessary to I'M
derstand and make clear to the
Amerign Party that, in such a per-
iod as we have now, Lovestone's
propaganda about the "degenera-
ton" of the CT, about a running
sore" in the Russian Party and the
CT, is nothing less than counter
revolutionary propaganda, direct
help to the international bourgeoisie
in their war preparations against
the Soviet Union. All possible fol-
lowers of Lovestone in the ranks of
the American Party must under
stand that now is the time to de-
eide whether they are with the Com
munist Party for the defense of the
Soviet Union or in the camp of
counter-revolution.
We must explain to the masses
the peace policy carried ou5 by the
Soviet government, Notwithstanding
the many provocations it has re-
ceived. Until now the Soviet gov
eminent has carried out deter
mined policy of peace, subordinat-
ing questions of so-called formal
prestige to the real interests of the
workers and peasants of Soviet
Russia.
Now we face a different conflict,
the danger of war against the Soviet
Union. Let us clear up some facts.
First of all, the plan of the imper-
ialists is to make the Soviet Union
appear the aggressor. Second, to
make it appear that the Soviet
Union is warning against a so-called
national revolutionary government
Ia bourgeois paper today calls the
Marking government a revolution
airy government). Thus they would
make it appear that the Soviet
Union begins a war for a colonial
concession, for a Chinese railway
passing through Chinese territory,
and they hope to represent the So
Wet government as continuing the
old czarist imperialist policy. Their
strategic plan is also perfectly
clear. 1t is also to draw the forces
of the Red Army to the Far East
ern front, in order to facilitate a
possible attack through Poland and
Roumania.
Soviet Against Imperialism.
Many times the Soviet Govern
ment has proved that its policy to-
ward the oppressed nations, the
colonial countries, is one of friend
ship and political support against
imperialism. Take the example of
Persia, where the Soviet Union re-
nounced all the privileges, all the
imperialist seizures of the Tsarist
Government. The same applies to
Turkey, Afghanistan, etc. Even in
this same China the Soviet Govern