The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
By VIM. z. FOSTER.

THE victorious building of socialism by the
Russian workers constitutes revolutionary
threat to the decaying world capitalist sys
TEN. The capitalists meet this threat by in
tensifyng their war preparations against the
Soviet Government. In this their Loyal aides
are the social fascists of the Second lnterna-
tiona
As a capitalist party pretending to represent
the workers. the socialists support every major
move made by the employers against the work
ers. But especially the attack against the So
Wet Government, a government which they,
no less than the employers consider mortal
enemy which must be destroyed at all costs
Socialism Triumphing
The great progress of the Soviet Union Gre
ates a serious crisis for the parties of the
Second International. For the past 16 years
these parties have been increasingly exposing
themselves as an anti-working class movement
by their great betrayal during the world war
their armed crushing of the revolutionary up
heavals in Germany and elsewhere following
the war, their persistent collaboration with
the capitalists to re-establish tottering capital
ism at the expense of the workers, their
unter-revoutionary attacks against the So
Wet Union, etc.
The Five-Year Plan.
This long record Of treachery has greatly
undermined the vast influence which the social
democracy once had upon the working class.
And now the tremendous advance of the Soviet
Union, with the brilliant success of the Five
Year, Plan of socialist construction under the
leadership of the Communist Party, occurring
as it dopes in the midst of the deepening world
crisis of capitalism and of the utter failure of
the socialist parties to make any progress
whatever towards socialism, throws violently
into holder relief than ever the complete bank
ruptcy of the Second International as work
ing class organization and deals its declining
prestige mortal blow.
Manifesto.
Keenly conscious of this, the social fascists
try to solve their difficulties by destroying the
Soviet Union by force. Hence they have be-
come active leaders in the growing capitalist
war offensive against the Soviet Union. The
recent manifesto of the Second International
on the Soviet Union was practically call for
war against the victorious Russian workers
and peasants.
This manifesto, raising the slogan of "Save
the Russian Revolution" calls upon the work.
ers not only of the Soviet Union, but of other
countries to defeat the Soviet government.
The last war was fought under the hypocrit-
cal slogan of make the World Safe for De-
mocracy."
The socia' fascists are outdoing even this
duplicity by trying, in the capitalist war
against the Soviet Union, to demoralize the
worlds workers with the program of make
the World Safe for Socialism"
Lies!
To carry out this program the social fascists
intensity their campaign of lying about events
ana conditions in the Soviet Union. The more
the Russian workers advance, the more the
social fascists deny it. At all costs they must
hide the truth from the working masses. The
above mentioned manifesto of the Second In
ternational reiterates the line for this syste-
matte Justification. 1t says not single word
about the great socialist construction now &C.
ing on, even though the capitalist press of the