The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
Here Is Something "New"
About the Soviet Union
BY WIN. z. FOSTER
Prisoner No, $3.50

Prisoner No. $3.50
Communist Candidate for of York state)
The tremendous development OF Socialism in
the Soviet Union provides problem for the
cial fascists which constantly becomes more DIFF
dcult.
The workers Of all countries are beginning to
realize the basic meaning of the Russian revolu-
ton, that 1t points the way the worlds workers
must travel to emancipate This realization is
fatal to the counter-revolutionary plans of the
social fascists to sustain decaying capitalism and
to lead its attacks against the Soviet Union.
Hence they spare no efforts to keep the workers
in the dark to the real course and signif-
canoe of the great socialist development now TAX
ing place in the Soviet Union.
Social Fascist "Marxism"
This leads them to repeat not only all the
rent capitalist propaganda, but also to Issue in
Vulnerable lying theories under a pretense of a
MARKHAM analysis of the situation. One of their
favorite arguments which they try to make ap-
pear with MARKHAM foundation, is that the revo-
luton cannot succeed in the Soviet Union BET
cause that country is not sufficiently Industrial
led that the of the proletaran revolution
presupposes the existence of an already highly
industrialized society.
This argument has been repeated tnnumerable-
times since the overthrow of the Kerensky regime
and the setting up of the Soviet Government in
November, 1917. 1t has become sort of indis-
putabIe point in the antiSoviet gospel of the So
cial fascists, something scientific" that is beyond
question.
Soviet Union is Building Socialism
But the great progress of Socialist construction
in the Soviet Union, which cannot be obscured
even by the gigantic flood of lying by the capt.
talists and socialfascists has shattered this mem
shevik lie The Russian workers and peasants
are building Socialism the pseudo MARKHAM argu-
ments of the Socialist lackey of capitalism to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
So the social fascists compelled to make
various theoretical handsprings in order to ex-
plain this contradiction To what absurd ex-
trennes they are driven is exempliied in an ar
ticle' in "The New Trades" of September IL by
Rheinhold Niebuhr Socialist Party candidate
for State Senator. Mr.. Niebuhr just retcrned
from Moscow, gets off his chest the usual SLAM
ders about the conditions of the Russian workers,
but is compelled to admit that great progress
is being made in building the industries
This he proceeds to explain by reversing the
favorte Menshevik argument against the RUS
sian revolution by asserting that its success is
because of the very lack of we'll established in
dustral system, but that Communism cannot sue
coed in highly industrialzed countries. He says;
IF it works in Russia when there was no in
dustry that does not prove that it will work in
America or Europe, where there is highly
developed industry"
NonsenseI
What nonsense to state that the working class,
which in the Soviet Union has proved its ability
ground up and to operate it with high efficiency,
cannot take hold of and operate the highly de-
veloped industrial mechanism of the capitalist
countries
Niebuhr's augmentation shows the political
bankruptcy of the social-fascists. 1t indicates
how hard put they are to find arguments to
bolster up their ounter-revolutonary program
of reforming capitalism in the face of the growing
world capitalist crisis and the world shaking
advance of Socialism in the Soviet Union.
During the present election campaign and in all
our work of educating, organizing and leading the
masses in struggle we must systematically ex-
pose the anti-Soviet lies of such as Niebuhr and
inform the workers as to what the Russian revo-
luton actually means. This knowledge will in
spre them to fight all the more militantly for
their every day struggles. 1t will show them
class.
Workers. Defend the Soviet Unionl Join
the Communist Party! Vote Communist!
written at Harris Island Penitentiary).