The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-19
For Political Decisiveness and Clarity
in Our Anti-War Activities

stance, this is the capitalist way out of the
crisis.
But what is the main obstacle that imperial
ism finds today in its way for the redivison of
the world for its capitalist way out of the crisis?
1t is the very existence of the Soviet Union,
particularly now when the first five year plan
is being carried out in four years, completing
the foundations for the building of socialism,
and the Second Five Year Plan is announced
Comrade Stain gave very clear answer to
the above question In his report to the 18th
Party Congress he pointed out brilliantly why
the imperialists consider the Soviet Union the
main obstacle for their murderous and bloody
capitalist way out of the crisis. He said: 81
spoke earlier of the contradictions of world
capitalism. But apart from these contradic-
tions there exists yet one more. I mean the
contradiction between the capitalist world and
the U. S. s. r. 1t is a contradiction between
capitalism whole and country building
socialisc. But this does not prevent II decom-
posing and shaking to pieces the very founda-
tions of capitalism. Still more, 1t lays bare to
the very roots all the contradictions of CAPT.
talisn and gathers them up into one knot max
ing of them question of life and death for the
capitalist order itself Therefore every time that
capitalist contradictions begin to grow acute the
bourgeoise turns its gaze tr~ards the U. S. S. r.:
Cannot we settle this or that contradiction of
capitalism, or all contradictions taken together,
at the expense of the T. S. S. R., the land Of
the Soviets, the citadel of the revolution, revo-
lutionizing by its very existence the working
class and the colonies; preventing us arranging
for new war, preventing us dividing the world
anew, preventing being masters Of our own
extensive internal market, so necessary for capt.
taIists particularly today in connection with the
economic crisis?'" my emphasis-SD)
The Soviet Union is the living embodiment of
the revolutionary way out of the crisis The
toiling masses throughout the world the colonial
peoples, look towards the Soviet Union in their
struggle against capitalism against imperialism
An imperialist war, war on the colonial peo-
Piles, in face of the existence of the Soviet Union
holds for the imperalists the danger of prole-
tartan revolutions and colonial uprisings and
revolutions. The imperialist powers therefore,
whose contradictions as a result of the crisis
sharpen to the point of armed struggle, who
already today carry on wars on the colonial
peoples, consider as the main aim of their for
egn policy, military intervention against the
u S. S. r.
We therefore see the dialectc development of
the following process within the imperialist
camp. acute growth of antagonisms amongst
themselves and within these antagonisms the
development of the struggle for leadership for
a united attack against the Soviet Union.
Thus through war on the Soviet Union, re
moving the obstacle" which "revolutionzes by
its very existence the working class and the
colonies" and prevents the arranging of new
war. prevents the dividing Of the world anew"
The pivot, therefore, of international relation
ships today is the antagonism between the world
which is building socialism and the world of
dying capitalism This antagonism is rowing
daily. The second Five Year Plan in its epoch