The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-20
SOVIET. SUCCESS
 | IMMEDIATE JOB l OF COMMUNISTS
Active World Revolutions ary Efforts Reserved to
 Aid Program
By EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff Correspondent) Moscow-(UP)-The communist party here, and to a larger extent than generally is known, the com munist parties of other countries, are directing all of their efforts on one big job. The job is to make the sole country ruled by commun- ists completely and unalterably successful.
 If the interests of the commun- ist movement in any country should conflict with the immediate interests of the Soviet Union (which is not an impossible SUD- position) there is no doubt that the Soviet Unions welfare would come first.
 Let no one imagine that the hope and desire for world revolution has been abandoned. Not only the hope is alive, but also the conviction that it is coming. Agood communist can no more abandon that than a good Christian can abandon the hope of heaven.
 A political formula gradually has taken shape, however, which regards the success of the Soviet undertaking as the necessary foun- dation for the world revolution. It is a convenient formula, since it permits unlimited passive support of the world revolution without demanding any active measures to further it. All active effort must be reserved to put over the Five Year plans.
 The Arguments
 Why invest in propaganda abroad, this formula declares, when our industrial successes and cur mere existnce are the best con- ceivable propaganda? When we ended unemployment we reached the tens of millions of unemployed in the capitalist world more effect- ively than any amount of outright propaganda would have done, it is argued. When we open steel plants while America and Germany keep closing theirs down, we certainly are doing our quota for the world revolution, is an additional point made.
 It is we'll to recall that Leon Trotsky, in his quarrel with Stalin. had insisted that it is impossible to build socialism in one country, in a capitalistic encirclement. It is Stalin's supreme task, therefore, to show that socialism can be erected here, even while the rest of the world fingers in capitalist darkness.
 The natural deduction from Trotsky's premises was the per manent revolution with the So- viet Union only 8 base for activi- ties until the revolution would be victorious internationally. The equally natural deduction from Stalin's premises is the concentra- ton of all energies at home, with out margin to spare for world revolution.
 Revolutionary Support Passive
 This policy, of course, has not been formulated in so many words. But 1t is implicit in the history of the last few years. The support of world revolution is passive-the mere existence and growth of the Soviet Union must suffice as it's present contribution to information al communism. That is a distinct departure from the earlier years, when that support was active. At that time, indeed, the world rev. o.ution, or at least another Bol- shevik victory in a large industrial country, was among the chief re- ilances of Lenin, Trotsky and their colleagues for success in Russia.
 The Five Year Plans are the sole reliances at present. They provide the Kremlin with enough work to keep it out of foreign complications. If there is any na- ton which needs peace, and lots of it, that country is Russia. It's non-aggression pacts. it's proposals in Geneva, it's long suffering atti- tude towards Japanese encroach- ments in Manchuria are genuine symptoms of its desire for peace.
 Peace is absolutely essential if the Five Year Plans are to be achieved. The Soviet Union there- fore will make any sacrifice to keep out of war. All it's plans for long time to come will be con- fined very strictly to the territory within it's own frontiers. That amounts to one sixth of the entire world and suffices for one govern ment.