The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-20

the main foreign policy of American imperialism
by his complete silence on the attempts to seize
the Chinese Eastern Railway, the occupation Of
Hardin by Japan, the complete blindness"
about the united imperialist front against the
Soviet Union.
To sum up: Trotskyism, Lovestoneism, left So
cial fascisnl, social fascisns. all are united on
the platform of lulling the watchfulness OF the
workers to the main strategy Of American i'm
perialism-of world imperialism, "the building
under its leadership of united imperiaIist front
against the Soviet Union and Soviet China
This is done under the cover of only or mainly
seeing" the present danger of war as confined
to the antagonisms between the imperialist
powers.
We will now deal with some Of the serious
mistakes committed recently in the Party on the
estimate of the present war events The chief
mistake and the one most prevalent consists OF
estimating the present war in China as bringing
forward as the main and Immediate danger
war between the mperialist powers and rele-
eating to the background the danger Of war
against the Soviet Union and the war against
Soviet China.
The other mistake is to present the DANGER of
war against the Soviet Union as separated from
the growing rivaries between the imperialist
powers. Common to both mistakes is the me-
chanical separation of the growing conflicts be-
tween the imperialist powers and the growing
1mperialst united front against the Soviet
Union, instead of seeing them in their diaIecti-
cal unity.
What were some of the concrete expressions
of these mistakes?
l. AT the time of the first Japanese offensive
on Shanghai In fact, at the very beginning
OF the Japanese drive in Manchuria some com
rades in the various editorial stats spoke of the
main immediate danger of war as that of be-
tween the United States and Japan A member
OF the staff of one of the Party papers at the
begi' ming of the Shanghai events proposed as
the main and only slogan for the present
Down with imperialist war between United
States and Japan" instead of subordinating it
to the defense Of the Soviet Union and Hands
Off Soviet China"
2. The Southern Worker of February 6 made
very serious mistake in its war story. The
main headline was as follows: World war looms
as bandit powers clash in Far East Demand
U. S. Withdraw Arms" What was missing hereP
Obviously the main slogans. The mentioning Of
the slogans Defend the Soviet Union" Hands
Off the Chinese Revolution is made only the
very end of the story. This is linked up with
the wrong analysis that crept into the war story
For instance: even while the inperialist
powers all united in desire to crush the
Chinese Revolution and try TO smash the Soviet
Union, their antagonisms become so sharp that
at any moment open warfare may break out
(My EMPHASIS. d. The analysis should have
been just the reverse. 1t should have placed In
the forefront the danger of war against the
Soviet Union and not as it does In RELOCATING to
a secondary position the danger Of united at
tack on the imperialst powers. (The Southern
Worker corrected its mistake in its next issue In
an editorial).
How does the Communist International place
the relationship between the growing conflicts
among the imperialst powers and the danger
of against the Soviet Union? The 18th
Plenum resolution on war stated: 1.-THE growing
world economic crisis and the struggle among
the imperialst powers for markets intensity all
imperialist antagonisms and cause them to be-
come exceptionally acute. The danger of armed
conflicts between the imperialist powers is
growing, but the growing antagonisms Of In
terests between the imperialists does not dimin-
ish but on the contrary increases the danger Of
war Of intervention against the U.S.SR." (My
EMPHASIS. d.
We must therefore be on guard against an
over-emphasis Of the contradictions between the
imperialist powers
The fundamental conflicts between Japan and
the United States Of which Lenin spoke . num-