The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-28
By EARL BROWDER

OGIleT Dig contribution TO the SCrue-
gle of the American working class
against its oppreSSors in his new
book Toward Soviet America. j."
Serving as an extended statement
of the Communist Party platform
IN the coming National Election
struggle, in which Foster is the
Communist candidate for Presid-
ent, this book is at the same time
a more fundamental document. 1t
places the immediate tasks of the
Communist Party. as the vanguard
of the working class, in connection
with the whole historical period of
the decline of capitalism and the
rise of socialism in the Soviet I'm
ion, and especially in connection
with the present situation arising
out of the world wide economic
crisis, and developing imperiaist
war
The Keynote.
1.-THE most striking ana slgaif-
cant political ana social fact in the
world today is the glaring contratt
between the industrial, political and
social conditions prevailing in the
capitalist countries and those OBJ
tanning in the Soviet Union" These
first words of Fosters book provide
the keynote. The first chapter
deals with the decline of capital
ism, the immediate economic cri-
sis, its relation to the general crisis
of capitalism, the MARKHAM analysis
of capitalist development, the de-
velopmenu of a new imperialist war,
the world wide upsurge of the
forces OF revolution, and the revolu-
tionary perspective that faces the
capitalist world Capitalism has
created the objective conditions for
socialism. But it can go no fur
Their. 1t cannot carry society to
higher stages of development, to
socialism and communiSm it has
become an OBSTACLE in the upward
path of humanity, means of con-
demning hundreds of millions of
people to mass starvation and
death. History will soon sweep
aside this obsolete system. Capital
ism has provided it's own execution
ers and grave-diggers, the proletar-
lat -. World capitalist society is
heading irresistably towards the
proletarian revolution"
The rise of socialism is the sub
ject of the second chapter. 1t is
the unique, advantage OF the Com
munists, that he alone is able to
deal with the question of the re-
construction. of society, now bank
rupted by capitalism, upon the
basis of the concrete example of &C
tual achievements in building So
cialism in the Soviet Union. Com
rade Foster explains the conditions
making possible the unprecedented |
rise of Bolshevik economy, which |
was made possible only by smash
ing through the limitations of capt.
talist private property, by the defeat |
and destruction of the capitalist |
state and its replacement by new
state power, that of the working |
class in alliance with the toiling |
peaSantry, in the form OF the Soviet |
Government. The practical achieve
ments flowing from the working
class seizure of state power, in the
revolutionary upbuilding of a new
industrial system, the tranSforma-
ton of Agriculture to a collectivist
basis the unprecedented rise in the
conditions of life of the toiling
masses, the cultural revolution
which has brought tens of millions
of workers and peasants into con-
scious participation in the collective
building of a new social life-theSe
world shaking facts are marshalled
in a brief but illuminating review,
making a sharp contrast indeed to
the picture of decay and chaos in
the capitalist countries.
Capitalist Way Out.
Foster brings out very sharply the
essential prerequisite for these
achievements, namely, the dictator
ship of the proletariat, "the first
form of the new toilers' democracy
after the overthrow of capitalism"
under the leadership of the Com
.aa,,., is.f Iln ,txr