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tors. And it becomes daily clearer
that diplomacy is insufficient and
that force is going to be used. The
policy of the government as agent
of the capitalist class to secure mar
kets at the expense of the capitalist
competitors remains the same in
peace and war time. The only diff
ference is that in the war the SOL
der and his cannon replaces the
diplomat with his negotiations and
pacts. Considered from this angle
it is clear that the American gov
eminent today is already convinced
that peaceful means are no longer
sufficient to secure the aim. There
fore, the present period is dominated
by the most intensive war prepare
tions. While naturalization has
partly led to this condition, it is in
turn Intensified by it because the
economic preparations for war drive
toward further naturalization.
Along with the economic and mill
tary preparations for war, American
capital is directing its offensive
against the advance guard of the
working class. The anti-red propa-
ganda is intensified. Persecution
augments tho propaganda. In Penn
sylvania our Party has again been
forced to defend the right of work
ers to belong to the Communist
Party. Where the legally assigned
funds for these activities seem in
adequate, these available funds are
augmented by volunteer collections
and volunteer contributions to anti
red activities. Another form of
mobilization IS the closer and ever
closer connection established be-
tween the functions of private CAPT
tai and of government. The merger
of private capital and the State into
specific forms of StaSe-Capitalism,
as pointed out in the Sixth Congress
program, finds its most classic reali-
cation in the present Hoover admin
istration. All of the steps taken by
the ruling class for meeting the
emergencies growing out of the con-
tradictions of their social system are
dictated by a growing consciousness
on their part of the weaknesses of
this system. The more glorious
capitalism seems to be, when meas
ured by the seemingly phenomenal
progress of its productive forces, the
more hollow does the colossus of
capital become. Capitalist prosper
ity cuts the very branch on which it
is sitting. American capitalism is
getting daily more aware of this.
1t is preparing for emergencies. 1t
prepares against the working class
as we'll as against its capitalist
rivals and competitors. 1t proceeds
against the working class by the
ever holder use of the State power
for the suppression of the workers
and by participation in the conspir-
acy of international capital against
the Soviet Union. 1t prepares
against its capitalist rivals for an
imperialist economic and military
war.
Lovestone in his so-called appeal
refuses to see these main features
of the present economic and political
situation in the United States.
While the Communists, because of
their theoretical understanding of
capitalism, are supposed to lead the
workers, Lovestone insists to be
even behind the spontaneous reac-
lions of the workers. These spon-
taneous reactions of the workers
manifest themselves in numerous
sporadic strike movements of unor-
ganized workers in many industries.
Instead of seeing in the present
strike movements the manifestations
of a process of rehabilitation, Love-
stone insists on protesting against
conception of general" radicali-
zation of the workers. He refuses
to see that these manifestations OF
rehabilitation indicate the process.
If they are not yet general they
present a broad and effective basis
of action for the Communist Party
for the spreading and deepening OF
this rehabilitation into all sections
of the American working class. The
Communist International and our
Party emphasize the process of radi.
calization to show the Party's du-
ties and tasks; Lovestone empha.
sizes the insufficiently general char.
acter of the rehabilitation in order
to prove the difficulties of the task
and the limited character of the
duties. One is the perspective Of
revolution, the other is the perspec.
tive of opportunism.
Lovestone's opportunism mani
tests itself not any less definite il
his consideration of the inner Party
situation. The coming class strug-
giles demand a unified Party; Love
stone fights for his faction against
Party unity. The Party needs the
univided loyalty of all it's members;
Lovestone ridicules Party loyalty
accuses those loyal to the Party Of
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