The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
Conciliators Bewildered In Face of Capitalist
Sterilization, Hopeless

against capitalism all over the world,
Comrade Humbert-Droz does not
see.
Such war would be of its very
nature a civil war right from the
day of its outbreak, for the Soviet
State was, is and always will be a
crystallizing point for instructions
of the workers. One must first have
LOST all belief in the working class,
all belief in the possibility of the pro-
letarian revolution, in order to be-
lieve that a war against the Soviet
Union would be nothing but system
of operations carried out by regular
armies with a peaceful capitalist
hinterland, as was the case in the
world war of 1914-18.
The standpoint of Humbert-Droz
is particularly dangerous because it
represents utter hopelessness. 1t is
sign of the times, it shows the de-
preston of certain elements who
have become bewildered in the face
of the capitalist sterilization and
have lost all sense of proportion.
We Communists do notswant war,
for we know that there is also an
other way leading to the interna-
tional proletarian revolution, but if
the capitalist world drags the work
ing masses into counter-revolution-
airy war against the Soviet Union, we
shall not stand aside and declare
resignedly that the war represents
the victory of capitalist sterilization,
but we shall do everything possible
to make such a war the final end of
the capitalist sterilization.
Let US take the example of the
coup d'etat in Yugoslavia. This
coup, which has re-established abso-
lutte monarchy in the epoch of i'm
perialism and the proletarian revo-
LUTON, is not mere:rs the insane ad-
venture of mentally sick pervert
who is striving to turn back the
wheel of history. The coup was or
ganized and carried out with the
knowledge and assistance of the Lon
don and Paris Stock Exchanges.
The coup also represents section
of the general Capitalist stabiliza-
tion," it is a part of the preparations
for war, it aims at throttling the
working class and suppressing the
national minorities in the interests
of Pan-Serbian Imperialism. One can
regard the Serbian monarchistic
coup as victory" for international
capitalism, re-shuffling the relation
of forces in the Balkans to the adj
vantage of the capitalist stabiliza-
ton.
In reality, however, the coup
d'etat in Yugoslavia is the beginning
of the civil war commenced by the
governing classes against the work
ing masses. Probably not more than
a few months will pass before we
witness wave of peasant revolts in
Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, etc
1t is fairly obvious that such civil
war cannot be counted to the ele-
Iments making for capitalist stabili-
cation. This civil war is sign Of
the general crisis Of greedy Yugo-
Islavian capitalism.
| Whoever remembers the discus
Ision which took place in the E. C
&c. l. concerning the Polish question
after the coup d'etat of Pilsudski
knows that our criticism of the posi-.
ton taken up by the group arount
Comrade Koshtcheva was based upor
the fact that this group saw nothing
else in Pilsudski's coup than an at.
tempt at capitalist sterilization with
a resultant "rain of gold" from The
United States to fructify the impov
erished Polish economic system.
The authors of the theses of thu
Polish minority group refused to SCI
that Pilsudski's coup was a convul
sion of Polish capitalism which sig
nified the inner rottenness of tn,
Polish economic system. At the tim,
there seemed no other voices in tn,
Comintern prepared to defend tn