The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION AND PARTY TASKS

I. The present economic crisis in the United
States requires sharp turn in the methods
and tactics of our Party. This crisis has
thrown millions of workers into unemploy-
ment. 1t is rapidly accelerating the ration
alzation process in industry. It's effects are
broadening and deepening the counter-offen-
sive of the exploited working masses. The
capitalist class is meeting these effects by re-
placing it's democratic pretensions with fascist
practices. Tie economic problems of the crisis
are intensifying the mperialist aggressiveness
Of American capital and are intensifying the
war danger. In this situation the Communist
Party, being the only force of proletarian
leadership confronts the task and the posi-
bility Of winning influence and leadership over
a majority of the working class. This
quires decisive turn toward mass activities,
spceding-up of the Bolshevization process,
general activization of the whole Party,
rapid transformation of the street nuclei into
shop nuclei basis of the Party, the develop
nient and broadening of leading cadres, the
building and leading of militant mass indus
trial unions.
Growth of the World Crisis.
,. The Sixth World Congress of the Com
intern pointed out that "the present period of
the capitalist world is giving rise to fresh
series of mperialist wars; wars among i'm
perialist states themselves; wars of the i'm
perialist states against the U. S. S. R., wars
of national liberation against Imperialism i'm
perialist intervention and to gigantic class
battles" The Tenth Plenum of the E. C. c.. J.
pointed out that the accentuated external and
internal contradictions of capitalism are az
present accelerating the SCATTERING of capital
list stabilization and are deepening and widen
ing'the revolutionary tide Of the international
labor movement.
This world crisis of capitalism, following
the path of the uneven development of CAPT
talsm, spreads throughout the capitalist sys-
tenn at varying tempo and with different
forms and character. If, in the United States
the crisis is already showing all the typical
characteristics of cyclical economic crisis
IN other countries sit is seen in the spreading
Of the crisis over wider territory eastern
Europe colonies China and India, the South
American countries, Japan; in third type
OF country it is seen in the maturing of gen
eral economic crisis Germany; in fourth
1T is seen iii the accentuation of the chronic
depression prevailing in number of impor-
tant industries Great Britain; in a fifth it
is manifested in the appearance of the first
symptoms of crisis, slowing down of produc-
ton, discharge of workers. falling of stocks
(France)" &c. c. c. l. Presidum Thesis.
The policy Of the world bourgeoisie is to
transfer the burden of the crisis onto the
shoulders of the working class. new wave
Of naturalization is the outstanding manifes-
tation of this. Politically the bourgeoise at
tempts to solve it's difficulties through fascism.
The problem OF markets it attempts to solve by
forcing redistribution of the world; for
this, it carries on most intense war prepa-
ration.
Socialist Construction in the U.S.S.R.
s. One Of the most important factors in the
further intensification IF the contradictions
Of the present period of world capitalism is
the growth of Socialism in the Soviet Union.
The gigantic program of the Five Year Plan
OF Socialist construction involving both indus
trialization and the colleetivization of agricul
ture. which has already been surpassed during
the first year and which will be entirely ac-
complished in four years, is the dearest evil
dence for the toiling masses throughout the
world Of the superiority of the Socialist sys-
tenn OF production over the capitalist anarchic
exploitative system of production. Tremen
dous Importance especially has the Socialist
transformation of agriculture, the mass COL
lectivizat;on of the millions of individual econ
omies OF the roor and middle peasants on the
basis Of the growth of the Socialist industry
and technique, the four-day working week.
on the basis of the leading role of the prole-
tariat in its alliance with the decisive masses
of the peasantry.
The turn in policy of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union from the policy of limita-
ton and squeezing out of the capitalist ela-
ments to the policy of the complete liquidation
OF the kulaks class, is thus DESTROYING the
last remnants of capitalist exploitation in the
country, is removing the last inner class basis
for the imperialist intervention and abolishng
the last inner basis of restoring capitalism in
the Soviet Union
Sharpening War Danger.
A. The development of the economic crisis
extremely sharpens the general contradictions
OF the capitalist system and brings still closer
the danger of a new war The dominating
imperialist rivalry is that between American
and British Imperialism All other Interim
pcrlaist contradictions tend to align them
selves with this main imperalist rivalry. In
the United States, preparations for war are
going forward rapidly, accompanied by open
lmperialist propaganda of new advance of
American capitalism toward the economic dom
nation of the world.
The London naval conference showed clearly
that the preparations for armed conflict be-
tween these two greatest imperiast forces is
the dominating question of nter-imperialist
policy. AT the same time it demonstrated the