The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
Latin-AmeriCan Rev0lts

come great planters and rationalize their hold
ings, competing at an advantage with the old
feudalists.
But imperialism needs political domination
to insure and advance its interests, particularly
when an imperialist rival enters the field.
Hence the normal class struggle of the ma
tive bourgeoise to take power from feudalists
and of the latter to retain it, is changed into
struggle often more violent than this "nor-
mar' class violence, of fercely contendng
groups, frequently mixed in class composition
against the ruling group, also of mixed COM
position, in which one or the other of great
imperialist rivals are deeply interested. die
tatorship of one such group or another thus
replaces the normal violence of one-class rule
which we "enjoy" under the name of demo
cracy.'
3. The world economic crisis: Because these
Latin-American countries are based mostly on
an economy of mono-cuture, their prosperity
depends upon one or two raw material or
agrarian products, the depression in imperial
list manufacture brings a severe economic
crisis, more severe than in imperialist coun-
tries, cutting deeply into the income of all
native exploiting classes, impoverishing the
poorer petty bourgeois strata, and creating
mass misery of utterly unbearable degree to
millions of wage workers and the poverty
stricken small peasantry.
Political Effects of Crisis.
4. Taking advantage of this terrible misery
of the masses, whose hatred for the native
lackey of imperialism who rules a dictator
over them increases with their misery, British
imperialism, in the cases of Bolivia and Peru,
has intrigued with the discontinued groups
having military following and ousted the pup
pets of American imperialist domination In
these countries. The almost instant answer Of
American Imperialism was to attempt the
same in Argentina and Brazil, where British
imperialism dominates the government.
s. Where is this all heading? A revolution,
properly termed, involves transfer of power
from one class to another No change of this
kind has taken place in Bolivia or Peru, though
the revolts which put in new groups of native
exploiters (of mixed class composition) and
gained political domination for different i'm
perialism, may dramatically awaken mass
movements which will seek such a real revolu-
tonary change.
In Argentina, the same immediate outcome,
or perhaps less, because of Yrigoyen's greater
mass following, may be expected, though the
masses there, with proper direction by Com
munist Party which practically does not exist
in Peru or Bolivia, gives perspectives of rapid
revolutionary advance.
Overture to World War.
6. Imperialist war: The crisis in imperial
list economy drives both Britain and America
into fiercer conflict, and these "little wars" in
China and Latin America are but the overture
to the inevitable war to the death on world
wide scale between British and American i'm
perialism. The forces let loose by such
allow the perspective not only for successful
revolutionary advance in Latin America, but,
as the Communist International has pointed
out, in number of important capitalist coun-
tries. This is period of wars and revolution.
T. In Brazil, with a Communist Party
with real mass following, schooled in three
armed risings, with influence in the armed
forces and an alliance with a sector of the
petty bourgeoisie, largely small peasants anxi-
GUS for armed struggle with maneuvering room
and program calling for oustng imperialisms,
both British and American, land to the peas
ants, factories to the workers, naturalization
of the large rationaized plantations under .
Soviet government of workers and peasants,
Brazil offers really revolutionary immediate
perspective, with characteristics similar in some
ways to China.
For SOviets In Brazil.
This is the reason why the Communist Party
of Brazil is raising the banner Of civil war for
the estcl,i" hmc,t OF councils If workers, peas
ants, soldiers and sailors, against both TIA MI