The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

The Plenum of the E.C.C.L. states
that the course of events after the
Sixth World Congress has fully and
completely confirmed the analysis
of the world economic and political
situation given by the Sixth Con-
gress as well as the correctness of
the line mapped out by it for the
international Communist movement.
Despite the prophesies of social
democracy and of the right and
oonciliationist elements in unison
with it, the sterilization of capital
ism has not only not become firm,
but, on the contrary, it is being
more and more shaken. Ever more
clearly is being confirmed the cor
rectiless of the estimation by the
Sixth Congress of the present, the
! ird period of post war capitalism
s a. period of its growing general
frisis, Ct an accelerated sharpening
(of the fundamental outer and inner
contradictions of imperialism in
evitably leading to imperialist wars
tc the greatest class conflicts, to a
period of the unfolding of a new
! revolutionary upgrade movement in
the principal capitalist countries, to
great anti-imperialist revolutions in
the colonial countries.
i. Sharpening of Fundamental Con-
traditions of Capitalism.
L. During the ten years that have
passed after the end of the world
war, the bourgeoisie, with the direct
and active aid of the parties of the
Second International, has been sys-
tenlatically deceiving the toilers
with the legend that the war of
191A-191S was the "last" war, that
now, after Germany has been van
Cuished and disarmed, stable peace
ought to be established among the
capitalist states (the League of Ma
lions as an instrument of peace;
innumerable bourgeois "disarma-
ment" projects; the hypocritically
pacifist Kellogg pact; the Young
plan as a method of peacefully
solving" the PREPARATION problem and
other imperialist contradictions that
have grown after the war;. In re-
atty it has been shown that never
since the end of the war of 1914
1913 has the menace of a new world
imperialist war been as acute as at
present. The wild struggle for
markets, for sources of raw mate
rails, for export of capital and for
spheres of its investment inevitably
leads to q war among the mightiest
imperialist nations for the purpose
of widening their economic terri
tory at the expense of one another,
to war for new re-division of the
world.
War is being actively prepared by
the League of Nations which is an
instrument of Anglo-French impe-
rialism. By rejecting the plan of
the U.S.S.R. concerning a real gen.
eral disarmament, the League of
Nations exposed itself as an instru-
n1ent for the preparation of war.
Under the hypocritical mask Of Gre
runciation of war" there is in reality
hidden n the kellogg pact an attempt
of American imperialism to secure
for itself the right and the possi-
bility of being the final judge de-
Gliding the date of the new war. The
feverish growth of ornaments in the
countries of imperialism, and the
formation of new military and po-
Iitical alliances ENGLAND and
France, England and Japan, France
and Poland, etc.,, once more testify
to the fact of the approach of a
new in1perialist war more grandiose
and more destructive even than the
war Of 1914-191S.
The new regulation of the repara-
tions problem through the Young
plan by no means signifies, as the
pacifistS assert, weakening of the
imperialist contradictions; on the
contrary it leads to further sharp
ening of the conflicts in the camp of
the imperialists (the Anglo-Ameri-
can struggle for the Preparations
bank. the Franco-German antagon-
lsmt; at the same time it increases
the, danger Of financial blockade,
which means also of an intervention
against the U.S.S.R. in consequence
OF Germany being increasingly
orawn into the front of the anti
Soviet military policies of imperial
ism. The small" wars that are
being fought in the colonial and
semi-co,onial countries lin China the
Huansiists and Marking, Feng-Hue
Siang) behind which is hidden the
growing Anglo-American rivalry,
are an overture to the great war be-
tween the U. S. A. and England for
world hegemony. After the Paris
conference the PREPARATIONS problem
looms more sharply than before, it
being point where the chief contra
dictions of the dominating capital
ist powers are crossing each other
a problem connected with the sharp
ening of the struggle among the i'm
rerialist groups and powers for mar
kets, for sources of raw material
end for capital export. The inter-
national linking up of the monopoly
combinations of finance capital Tin
tcrnational cartels, financing COM
panies. the Young plan of SUPER
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