The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-23

8. Many an honest worker in
the G. P. and outside finally swal-
lows all its mistakes and crimes
and remains loyal to it, because
he accepts the c. P. argument
which runs something like this:
'1The Soviet Union is the only
workers state in the world. 1t is
the workers fatherland. 1t is in
terrible danger today. Our main.
practically our sole task, is to de-
fend it. Save the Soviet Union
and all is saved; lose it and all
is lost. Attack the G.. P. today and |
you attack Stain; attack Stain |
who has the full support of the
workers in the S. U. today and you
attack the S. U. Any one who does
that is doing just what Hitler
does: he lines up with Hitler, he
is an assassin of Soviet leaders, he
is that vilest of all creatures, one
who under the disguise of a rev.
olutionist would destroy the Sow
let Union and the October Revolu-
tion."
We too believe that the Soviet
Union is a workers state. We
point to the achievements of the
workers in the S. u. as evidence
of how planned socialist produc-
ton even in the face of the great
est obstacles and when as yet only
the beginning of the foundations
of a socialist system exist along
side of vestiges of capitalism, can
do more for the masses than CAPT
talism can. We stand, and we
; alone. for the real defense of the
Soviet Union.
To hold that you can defend the
S. u. and advance the interests of
the Soviet workers only by accept
: ing the Stain regime and not
2 criticizing Stain is like saying
7 that in order to defend uniOnism in
the u. S. and advance the inteSests
!. of Orgaized labor you have to ac'
cept the regime of Bill Green
John L. Lewis, Matty Vol and
t Dan TObin and have to regarC
e any criticism of these bureaucratic
as treason. Our contention is pre-
: cisely that in both cases the inter
e ests of the workers can be advanc
y ed only by defeating the presen
e leadership.
{ The Stain theory is that Soc
> ialism can be built-that is, pow
n erty abolished, classes done ava.
u with, etc.-in the Soviet Uniol
y alone and although capitalism
: still holds sway in all other lands
~ 1t is natural that those who be
~ lieve this and especially office-hol
y ders in the S. U. should becom
. lukewarm about the revolution i
Is other countries, should concentrs
p tie all their attention on "buildin
e Socialism" in the S. U. and te
y the Communist parties in othe
y countries that their only job is de
= Tending the Soviet Union.
q What is the result of the worl
m ing-out of this theory? The intel
q national revolutionary movemeI
nt is emasculated. Not a Congress {
Mt the CT. has been held in seve
70 years, as we have pointed out. tt
he Communist parties in capitali
A. countries are forced to chang
. their line mechanically as the ex
IS gencies of the foreign and dome
10 tic policies of the present leade
ed ship of the Soviet Union dictat
M Upon parties thus weakened Fa
,rs cism inficts one defeat after a
n" other.
IN The Soviet Union net being ab
lal to count under these circumstanc
nd on the backing of any powerf
he revolutionary force in capitalist
rs: countries, the Stalinist leadersh
of leads it further into a swamp.
~ order to postpone war, the s.
ZEN enters the League of Natio
we which Lenin described as a leag
Try of imperialist robbers, and Stal
proclaims this as a victory for
-, workers. A military alliance
an' understanding is entered in
' e with imperialist France. Mona
10y gression pacts are signed vi
So various countries. Leagues aga
- - st War and Fascism", mainly co
- pOSGQ Oh uluU1C CLASS luCGlIGCLuc
AZ are organized. Workers are imbu
NJ with the pacifst illusion that pes
~. can be maintained by these mea
~ But even that is not the wo
!S that Stalinism can do and !
AZ done.
mr. The Bolshevik party in the S.
are has virtually been destroyed.
ain the Political Bureau of the pa
is in Lenin's time no one but Sts
pr remains. All the rest are In ]
the son, exile or retirement. Party
inc ponents of Stain are sent to
lAcR IBERIA or shot. In their place n
Sta ike the present Soviet ambas
and doris to London, Paris, Der
ibu- Washington, who were bourgt
and professors or Mensheviks or act
inc ly engaged in counter-revoluti
la. airy activity at the time Of the
cher Revolution are elevated
office. and along with profess
OF and social workers in the u.
hen- who discovered Russia yesterC
had