The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
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By ALEX EITTELMAN.

We shan begin by drawing a line of distinction De-
tween the two main kinds of pacfism One is the
official pacfsm of the imperasts and the imperalst
governments. This kind OF pacfsm is a fake and a
Swindle. 1t is screen with which the capitalists try
to up the war danger and the preparations
The other is the pacifism of various liberal, humani
tartan and pettybourgeois groups This kind of paci
fism is Illusion 1t is a dangerous illusion because,
instead OF stopping abolishng actually enables
the imperialists and miarists to put the fake
official pacfst maneuvers, which for war
preparations
Here we shall discuss mainly the second kind of
pacfs the kind that cultivates danger illusions What
these illusions? The first and greatest is that
imperialist is something separate from the CAPT
tast system that it possible abolish without
aboIshing capitalism.
On this question must have the utmost clarity.
We maintain that there is unbridgcable gap be-
tween imperialist peace and imperalist One pro-
duces the other. The one passes into the other
The imperiahst slaughter of l914-1918 no
cidenta outbreak, It came inevitably as result Of
years of mperiast rivalry for markets. spheres of in
fluence, and colonies. The actual beginning of the
world was preceded by several minor" and
by warike incidents" each Of which would
have precipated world conflagraton had the major
imperalst powers felt ready for it at the time. It
broke out in August, 1914, because England France,
Russia, Germany and Austria ready for it.
Is this struggle for markets, spheres OF influence
and monopoisc possession of colonies something sep
capitalism of this of Imperialism. This is best
shown by the ncontestable fact that the mperiaist
peace-the infamous Versailles "peace-did not only
fail to abolish imperiaist rvalries mitigate them
but. the contrary, has laid the basis for their ut
most sharpening.
The imperialist has produced imperialist
peace 1t couldn't produce any other peace The only
country in the world that stood out for different
real and non-imperiast peace the country of the
victorious working class revolution in Russia under the
leadership of the Communist Party. Precisely this
proves point namely, that only by overthrowing
capitalism bring into existence real peace ana
equality among nations.
The mperialist for redvision of
the world in favor of the victorious powers. This
what the Versailles Treaty had fixed on paper. But
the Treaty did not stop capitalist development Nor
did it fix forever the relation of forces between the
various imperialist powers The fight between them
went With this great and decisive difference that
the world subject to mperaist exploitation and divi
sion considerably narrowed down by the victory of
the workers revolution in Russia To be precise: one
sixth of the earth out of it, In addition, the
revolutionary struggles of the colonial peoples for lib
Grafton is narrowing down the sphere of mperialst
exploitation still further The result is des-
perate and intense struggle between the inperalsts.
And in the first instance, the struggle between Amer
lean and British imperialism for world domination