The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-15
Report on the Theses, Delivered to Ptonun OF
Central Committee by Comrode Bro1cder,
April Srd, 1880.
I. UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND DEEP
ENING OF THE CRISIS.

I. UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND DEEP
ENING OF THE CRISIS.
1t is not my purpose to repeat the thesis. 1t
is taken for granted that you have all read the
thesis, that you have studied it, and that you
have understood it.
On this latter point some comrades may be
inclined to raise question. And II there
is any misunderstanding, any lack OF clarity
in any point of the thesis, it is particularly
upon these points that we want to concentrate
and to bring out what we believe are the most
vital, the most essential leading points IN the
whole document and to establish very clearly
and definitely the line of the document.
The thesis that was sent out in February is
not presented to you as something final. Each
particular formulation of the thesis is not the
question here What we are concerned with is
the line of the thesis. Is the line correct, ade-
quately stated, proper emphasis given on the
most important leading points?
First, l want to discuss the question of the
economic crisis of the United States and the
world economic crisis. First of all, we must
point out a weakness in the first draft of the
thesis that was sent out, a serious weakness,
in the failure to develop adequately in dealing
with the world economic crisis, the uneven de-
velopment of the crisis. This was brought out
with regard to the United States but was not
sufficiently emphasized in the first draft on
the world aspects. There was too much of a
mechanical view of the crisis developing every
where, all over the world, at the same rate of
speed At least this conception was not guarded
against by the specific statement in the docu-
ment on the unevenness of the development as
it expressed itself throughout the world This
principle of uneven development is something
hot &c taot for IN
cretey in every anal sis
We have, for example, the facts which are
very important in their practical consequences,
that the economic crisis, as it spreads over the
world, effects different countries in different
tempos and different forms of development
The economic crisis has already struck Ger
many, for example, quite deeply And next to
the United States, perhaps the crisis in Ger
many already assumes its clearest features.
In Great Britain it shows itself in a diff
ferent way. In Germany there were many of
the features, before the crisis, of business boom
comparable in some respects to the United
States Therefore the development of the crisis
in Germany follows much the same course as
in the United States. In Great Britain the de-
velopment of the crisis takes different forms,
due to the fact that there had been no boom,
but a constant decline, with the exception of
dustries-coal, etc.-had been going through a
constant decline during the period when the
industries of the United States and Germany
and other sections of the capitalist world were
going through the period of boom. The boom
period being absent from the previous develop
ment, the crisis effects Great Britain different
". We do not see the same manifestations of
crisis, but still very real effects of the develop
ing world economic crisis in intensifying the
decline in Great Britain, which has extended
over a long period of years.
You see in such countries as France diff
ferent form of the Developments different
tempo of the crisis In France we see only the
beginnings, the symptoms The crisis in France
is not yet matured as it has in most of the cap
italist countries of Europe. We see further
the influence of the development of the world
aspects of the economic crisis in the colonial
countries. Here also we must say in our first
draft of the thesis we overlooked very i'm
portant point when we, without qualification,
merely spoke of the world economic crisis be-
ginning in the United States and spreading
over the rest of the world. A closer ANALYSIS
of the development of the economic crisis will
probably establish that the economic crisis first
of all showed itself in the colonial and semi
colonial countries in the countries of produc-
ton of the raw material for the imperialist
countries, especially in the countries of single
culture, whose economic life depends upon the
production of single article of export for
the world market. This is characteristic of the
present period of the development of world i'm
perialism and has very important consequences
in the development of the general crisis on
world scale, subject which we have only now
really begun to examine, and point it out now
not to go into detail but merely to say that our
understanding and our full elaboration of the
picture of world economic crisis is only now
beginning to be rounded out and made COM
plete.
The point to emphasize at present is that we
must carefully continue the examination and
analysis of the world situation to check up
the factors of the unevenness of the develop
ment of the crisis and consequently the uneven
development of the consequences of the crisis,
sharpening of the class struggle and the de-
veopment of the revolutionary movement
Then we must give attention to the question
OF the unevenness of the development of the
economic crisis in the U. S. This has already
been treated in the first draft of the thesis
sent out. This is rendered most obvious when