The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
BY MAGYAR.

WYE are living in pre-war period.
w The tenpo OF the transition to the
new cycle of revolutions and wars is
accelerating. History has not yet
spoken its last word, and it is hard to
predict whether in certain countries
the revolution will not precede the
imperialist war or intervention. AS
yet, history has not spoken its last
word and the question whether the
war in the imperialist camp will pre-
cede the intervention, or the inter-
vention will precede the imperialist
war has not yet been decided. 1t is
obvious, however, that this decision
approaches nearer and nearer.
We are living in a pre-war period
When perusing the works of Lenin,
one sees that only Leninism has fore
seen and predicted the development
of things, and that only Leninism has
given the world proletariat correct
orientation.
During the first imperialist world
war, the social chauvinists OF the
Second International and the petty
bourgeois pacifists prattled a lot
about democratic peace" about a
peace without annexations and re-
parations." During the world war
Lenin already foresaw and predicted:
~ -. "Thus also the peace end
ing the war can only be registra-
ton of the shifting of power eff
fected in the course of the war"
And Lenin also foresaw the ef-
fects of this iinperialist robbery
peace on the situation of the work.
ing class:
consequently, irrespective
of the result of the war, the con-
cIusion of peace can only determine
a worsening of the political and
economic situation of the masses
since the capitalist society remains"
And it is precisely in view of this
that Lenin placed the world prole-
tariat before the world historic
dilemma:
Either one helps its own
national bourgeoisie to rob foreign
countries, calling this support de
Tense of the Fatherland,' or saving
the home country or one helps to
prepare for the socialist revolution
of the proletariat."
Lenin foresaw and predicted that
the leading imperialist Powers did not
prepare for a democratic peace with
out annexations or PREPARATIONS, but
for a new world war for resharing
the world:
1.-TWO or three robbers (America,
England, Japan of world power,
and armed to the teeth, are sharing
the booty and draw the whole
world with them for THEIR war
for the division of THEIR booty"
And Lenin has quite concretely
predicted that the most bitter strug-
giles between the imperialist robbers
would flare up around the semi
colonies such as China and the coun-
tries of Central and South America.
1.-THE struggle for the semi-depend-
acquire special acuteness in the epoch
of banking capital, when the rest of
the world had already been divided"
And even during the first world
war, at time when the petty bour-
geois pacifists and the present So
cial-Fascists were chattering about
"the last war" and IAN organized
peace" driving the masses into the
trenches with this promise, Lenin
warned the world proletariat that the
first world war was a preparation for
a second world butchery:
1--WE will not ignore the tragic pos
sibility that if the worst comes to
the worst, mankind will even out
live a second imperialist war, should
the revolution in spite of the re-
peated outbreaks OF mass unrest and
mass indignation, and III spite of our
efforts, not yet be born out of the
war"
Moreover, Lenin has indicated
quite specifically which imperialist
antagonisms can and will lead to
new world disaster. AS one of the
decisive antagonismS in the camp Of
imperialism, Lenin indicated the
struggle between Japan and the
United States:
1.-THE second antagonism, which is
the determining factor for the in
ternational situation for Russia, is
the rivalry between Japan and AM
erica. The economic development of
these countries has, for several de-
cades of years, accumulated ire
mendous mass of explosive matter
which renders a desperate struggle
for the domination of the Pacific and
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