The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

By ROBERT MINOR.


political volcanic eruption that concern the
colonial empires of all the big imperialist
powers.
Look at a map of Africa and you will see a
great red streak from the northern coast south
ward through the desert, tropical Jungle and
fertile farming land and diamond and gold
fields, clear to the southern-most tip at the
Cape of Good Hope. This is the British Afri-
can empire. You will also find to the westward
an enormous French African colonial empire,
and in the valley of the Congo colossal Bel
gian empire. To the east Is Mussolini's Afri-
can slave territory In addition there are
Dutch and Portuguese colonies of great size
and-although the capitalist world does not
admit it--there is a newly conquered colony of
the United States which tolls in slavery under
the ironic name Liberia" and under the rule
Of the Firestone Rubber Co.
All of Africa is slave territory for the Ne
gro. The capitalist world-outlook regards
Africa existing for the exploitation of its
tremendous Negro population. To capitalism
the Negro IS still a slave, historically and
perpetually- mules, corn and cot
ton"
This standard is carried out consistently by
the United States Government in this coun-
try and in Haiti Nicaragua, Santo Domingo,
Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Cuba.
To the capitalist system the Negro through
out the world is slave, not because of some
theoretical reasoning, but because the capital
ist imperialist system depends upon colonial
exploitation. Because of this economic neces-
sty of capitalism, the whole capitalist world
maintains as one of its most sacred principles
the theory that the Negro (and also the yell
low man and the brown man Of other CONT
nents) is an inferior order of human being,
bologically and in every sense.
The fierce insistence of the biologists of
capitalism upon the theory of race superiority
has been given the name of white Chauvin-
ism"
White Chauvinism is more strongly cul-
tivated today throughout the capitalist coun-
tries than ever before in history-because the
capitalist imperialist system is now in crisis
on world-scale.
But also never before was the revolt against
this imperialist exploitation and conquest so
strong as it is today.
For instance, the great continent which
might be called "the mainland" of the whole
now in position as follows:
the northern half is occupied by the free revol-
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in whose
territory not only the Russian Slavs, but also
several scores of the different nationalities of
o-called "inferior" peoples have become the
free builders of the most modern socialist So
ciety. The southeastern quarter Of Asia is in
the turmoil of revolution and counter-revolu-
ton (the latter being organized and paid for
by the imperialist powersl. The Chinese rev.
oution, once apparently drowned in blood by
the mercenary tool of the American Govern
lrent, General Chang Kai Shek, is beginning
to rise again to new and higher stage. Within
the other great section of the continent, the
peninsula of India is now in rapidly develop
ing revolutionary situation, which a capitalist
journalist has described as giving to the Brit
ish impemalists their greatest crisis since
August, 1914.
Lenin taught us to see Asia. Lenin, who
led the successful revolution that overthrow
the Cars empire across the 5000 miles stretch
from Leningrad to Vladivostok, taught us to
see the black, brown and the yellow peoples
in the revolution. 1t is worth while to look
at a tabulation of the population of the world
to the division between the colonially,
exploited and the imperialist nations.
A popular table of ''racial" divisions (not
reliable for serious political estimates) is the
following:
Monaghan ................ Gas 900 900
Population of India (native). 319,000,000
Negro (Africa, U. S. A., etc.,. 100000 900
Malay, Polynesia, etc. ....... 100000
American Indian (South Amer
lea, etc. .............. $4,000, 900
Total dark" populations III 100000
whites Gncludng Asian Sc
mltlcs) -.......... 5G,OOU,VUU
(About three times many
'colored' as "white'o
But a much more useful and accurate tabula-
approximate total world population as S1,905,-
000, 900, divided as follows:
In Colonies and Semi Colonies 1,134 0OO 900
In Soviet Russia ............. 143,OO0,00O
In intermediate Countries 80. 264 ,000,O 900
Total world population out
side of Imperialist home
IdHuS ................ l,o4l ,VUUUUU>
Total inhabitants of Imperialst
countries exploiting colonies 363,000000
The average white chauvinist wakes up with
the start to discover that three-fourths Of the
entire population of the world consists of
'colored" peoples-black, brown and yellow
and that the great majority of these are fast
being drawn into world revolution, if not
already in it. A further shock to the white
shauvinists is, of course, the realization that
The largest single state in the world-that of
Soviet Russia-is unalterably an ally of all of