The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
LIES AND LIARS AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION

The red trade menace Will never De porn eX-
cept in the form in which it exists now-that
of poisoned gas produced out of the magma
ton of the manufacturers of the holy war myth.
Capitalist economy proceeds on completely
different principles than Soviet economy.
First of all capitalist economy is not planned.
Capitalist individualism and competition can
only produce chaotic economy, Just as social
ism must of necessity produce planned econo-
my. Although capitalism answers every COM
plant of workers concerning working condi-
lions with arguments about the law of supply
and demand, yet its economy is unable to
adapt itself to this law and to adjust supply
and demand to each other. Capitalism must
leave this adjustment to economic and social
commissions. The CONFUSION of an economic
crisis must temporarily and from time to time
adjust production to the market adjust the
supply to the demand). The convulsion of an
imperialist war is supposed to adjust the
growth of the productive capacity of capital
ism to the growth of its markets. But no mat
ter how serious these commissions are they
cannot solve the contradictions of capitalism.
They merely become the starting point of new
and more serious crises.
| Under socialism the limit of production is
| the limit of the needs and of the capacity to
supply these needs under any given stage of
development of production. Both the needs
and the capacity to supply them develop ST.
simultaneously and stimulate each other.
Under capitalism the needs are limited by
the social capacity to buy; but the production
is theoretically unlimited. AS matter of fact
the urge for ever more profits most energeti.
cally tends toward an overwhelming produc
ton. At the same time it also tends just as
energetically toward simultaneous relative
narrowing of the social capacity to buy, be-
cause the increase of production is not de-
signed to serve simultaneous and equal in,
crease of the earnings of the workers; it only
serves an increase of profits
Profit-making, however, does not depend or
the securing of unpaid labor. 1t depends also
on the chance to sell; it depends on markets
for the commodities produced. The capitalist
market is not an expression of the needs Of
society. It is only an expression of its capac
ity to buy Capitalism cannot extend its mar
ket beyond this social capacity to buy. How
ever, though capitalism as whole is bound BY
this limitation of its world market, individual
capitalists, groups of capitalists or capitalist
nations can extend their markets within this
general limitation at the expense of each other
Therefore we witness the continuous violent
struggle for markets between the capitalist ma
tions. When mere economic war measures
become ineffective in this struggle military
measures are taken. Then the economic wal
turns into military war
Economy of the Soviet Union is not subject
to these laws of capitalism. First it does no.
produce commodities but necessities. SeconC
it plans its production and will therefore never
be burdened with over-production or with
too-highly developed productive apparatus
Soviet increase of production and development
of productive forces cannot lead to economic
crises and wars but will lead to more leisure
and greater abundance for the workers.
The whole propaganda about the insidious
Soviet intensions of competing capitalism out
of existence is contrary to the Fundamental
economic principles of socialism. Only CAPT
talism can think of competing it's opponents
out of existence.
The propaganda that the red trade menace
threatens the jobs Of the American workers
will be analysed under the subject of Soviet
Dumping"