The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Thomas and the League

is 1T any wonder that Norman Thomas
sees eye to eye with the Trotzkyites on
the entry of the Soviet Union into the
League of Nations? After all the principle
of merging with the Second International
has been taken up joyously by the Trotzkyites
Here is what Thomas has to say about the Sow
let's entry into the League. Socialists have been
called almost every ugly name because in part and
fashion they have said that there we're some good
ends to be served through the League of Nations
Now Russia sits at the Council table and American
Communists are supposed to applaud"
Hypocritical Norman Thomas conceals the fact
that the socialist leaders supported their iperiast
governments role in the League of Nations
One must indeed deliberately seek to blind the
workers on the real issue when he fails to point
that the Soviet Union enters the League of Nations
the victorious dictatorship of the proIetarat at
particular stage of capitalist antagonsms and not
to bring about union of capitalist powers for their
ends.
The Soviet Union enters the League of Nations
after long period of revolutionary fight for
peace. On entering the League Of Nations it clearly
put before the eyes of the toing population of the
world its aims to utilize its position in the League
as weapon for peace against every Vaccination
against every scheme of the imperiast powers.
The socialist leaders argued for their govern
ment's participation in the League Of Nations at
time when it was organizing for the armed inter
vention against the Soviet Union
Now the growing antagonisms among the i'm
perialist bandits have reached stage where it is
possible for the growingly powerful Soviet Union to
block their efforts to arouse the whole toiing popu-
lation of the world to the dangers Of war and TO
make it hunored-fold more difficult for the i'm
perialist bandits to pursue their imperialist war
plans
Just slight difference which Norman Thomas
does not want the workers to see.
He taunts the American Communists with sup
porting the policy of the Soviet Union for peace
He further charges that Communist International
ism has to subordinate itself to Russian interests"
The Japanese war lords speak of Russian inter
eSts as Red Imperialism" Is this what you mean by
Russian interests" Norman Thomas? Or is it
not the fact that the interests of the victorious
proletanan revolution in the Soviet Union with its
inspiring socialist construction, with its mighty
Red Army, with its growing world power and its
mounting influence among the world proletariat
are the interests of the world revoutionP
THE Soviet Union has no interests apart from the
interests of the toling and colonial masses of
the whole world 1t has no interests separate and
apart from the revolutionary interests of the ex-
plotted in every land.
certainly, the American Communists will sup
port the Soviet Union in every one of its revolu-
tionary moves against the capitalist war mongers
and for ralying the proletariat against their own
imperialist powers and for peace
Unable to direct his attack against the Soviet
Union point blank, Norman Thomas uses this
roundabout method of attacking the Soviet Unions
aims as purely Russian, national schemng In this
he is one with the Trotzkytes
The capitalist powers accepted the Soviet Union
into the League of Nations not because they wanted
to- but because they were forced to by the growing
general crisis of capitalism, by their conflicts
and by the remarkable strength and power of the
workers fetherland.
This Mr. Thomas does not want to see But
every Socialist worker will understand and will Join
with the Communists in anplaudng the growing
power and strength of the bulwark of world revo-
luton.