The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-25

against the Soviet Union if we did
not likewise list the contribution to
the new phase of the offensive made
made by Socialist Party propaganda
lists. Officially the Socialist Party
is for recognition of the Soviet TN
ion by the United States. Actually,
its propaganda never miss an OPP
portunity to defame the Soviet
government and its leadership, the
Communist Party.
IN FORE OF ~
FRONT
Writing in 1.-THE American So
cialiSt Quarterly'-A Socialist jour
nal of Opinion, David P. Berenberg
instructor in "Marxism" at the
Rand School, says in the course of
a review of Comrade Fosters book
Towards Soviet America"
HE says much about prepar-
atoms for war in every country
in the world. Russia, however, is
not preparing for war. NO-Rus-
STA is preparing fOr-defense. To
assert that Russia is simply an
other imperialist power fishing
in the troubled waters of Man
churia and Mongolia would be
treason to the Comintern. That
the youth in Russia is being sub
jected to military training more
rigid than anywhere else but
Italy, is ignored. But we are told
page 53) that When the cap
italists to save their bankrupt sys-
TEN, launched their armed attack
into the USSR. to destroy its new
Socialism (sic), they must be
taught revolutionary lesson
from which their system of rob-
berry and misery viii never re-
cover On Page 327, Mr.. Foster
finds its necessary to say that
Once the power of the bOurgeOi-
sic is broken internationally
there will be no place for the
present narrow patriotism. The
bigoted national chauvinism that
serves SO well the capitalist war !,
makes The usual sop to peace! |,
There are no Chauvinists i'm the
world today like the Russians. .
My country right or wrong is '
in comparison with the Russian
slogan Stain right or wrong the
essence of liberalism"
Surely the Socialist Party anS
its leaders have earned the import
ant place they occupy in the inn
perialist front against the Soviet
Union! The sheets Of the degener.
ate Russian white guard groups
have turned out nothing lower than
this-and here we have the actual
substance Of the hatred of the pro.
letarian revolution and Socialist
construction behind the demagogir
vaporings of Norman Thomas abou,
recognition of the Soviet Union.
FINALLY, climaxing the drive
L against the Soviet Union, Herbert
Hoover, quite fittingly, as spokes-.
man for the foremost imperialism,
has taken the initiative in the field
of anti-Soyiet and anti-revolution-
airy agitation. In his Cleveland
speech he injected a new note by
blaming the Soviet Union and the
rising revolutionary movements in
the colonial and semi-colonial coun-
tries for the horrors of the world
economic crisis and particularly for
for the mass misery in the United
States.
Trying to kill two birds with one
stone and use the anti-Soviet issue
against his Democratic Party rivals
Hoover spoke of 'the effect upon
us of the revolution among the
300,000,000 people in China (there
are 100000, 0O0-B. d. or the agit-
alton among the 300,o00,000 people
in India Ghere are $4,000, 000-B,
d. or the Bolshevist revolution
among the 160,00O,00O people in
Russia. They have ignored the eff
feet of Russia's dumping into the
world the commodities taken from
its necessitous people -"
INIPERIALIsT VIEW" OF
CRISIS
In other words, the pro1etarian
revolution and the building of So
cialism in the Soviet Union, the
revoltS of the oppressed peoples in
China and India against imperial
ism are responsible for the mass
unemployment and mass sufferingS
which American Imperialism is in
flicting upon the working class at
home and the peoples in its colonies
and protectorates. Therefore, II
you want to end the crisis and res
tore prosperity, make war upon and
destroy tho Soviet Union; make
war upon and crush the Chinese
revolution and stamp out the revo-
lutionary mass movement in India.
This is the American imperialist
way out of the crisis. This is the
key to its policy in the Far East
and Europe.
THE facts here cited are sufficient
to show that the danger of act
ual blockade and invasion of the
Soviet Union has increased rapidly
in the recent period. The facts are
sufficient to show that out of the
weller Of -imperialist antagon-
isms emerges the main line of inn
perialist policy-destruction of the
Soviet Union and the crushing Of
those colonial revolutions against
imperialism which are inspired and
strengthened by the fact of the
existence and achievements of the
proletarian dictatorship by the fact
that the revolution freed all peoples
oppressed under czarism and cap
italism.
In the light of the facts cited
here the organization of the mass
defense of the Soviet Union and
the Chinese people against imperi-
aliSt aggression anDearS in its COR