The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-10
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VAR Il. AND The WORKERS


pacifist and liberal anti-war senti- d
ment, and the maneuvers of the t
League, Soviet foreign policy pro- g
notes the most disastrous illu- 7
sions in the minds of the workers, I
and acts in effect to further the
interests of French and British j
imperialism.
The struggle against imperialist
war requires the constant expos
ure of the foreign policy of Stain
| ism.
6. One of the most dangerous
illusions fostered by the diplomacy
Of the Soviet Union, in company
with demoralized liberals, reform
lists, and pacifists of all shades,
is the notion that the world is now
divide between "peace-loving
democratic" nations and "war-lov-
ing fascist" nations. This notion |
is part of the preparation for sup |
port of the "peace-loving nations"
in the coming war. Marxism re-
jects and dispels this illusion or
any form of it. The idea that
there are peace-loving as opposed
to war-loving capitalist nations,
like the idea that one or another
nation is "guilty" in an imperialist
war, is at best journalistic ethical
sentimentality, not political real
ism. The causes of war are to be
/ found in the internal structure Of
world capitalism, operating within
} all nations. The national state of
+ every capitalist nation, without ex-
5 ception, is the political instrument
t of the class enemy, the first and
implacable enemy of that nations
e proletariat. The revolutionary
e party can make no distinction be-
e tween "good" and "bad' capitalist
e states. 1t is the enemy of every
e capitalist state, to the death.
e 7. At the outbreak of the last
al imperialist war, the Second Inter
lie national revealed it's internal de-
4 generation by betraying the work
ia ing class to. the class enemy, by
n espousing the cause of natlona
IS defense and patriotism, by truce
t. with the bourgeoisie in the inter
Y, ests of national unity" by going
" over to social patriotism and socla
n chauvinism. Already, BEFORE
is the outbreak of the new war, tn
is leaders of the Socialist and Labou
n, international have announced !;
ed repetition Of the betrayal, are al
IS, ready preparing to turn over thG 7
RI following to the war-makers: l
to England, the British Labour Party
is. bv calling for government apple
ms sanctions and the closing OF tn
h. Suez Canal, once again takes tn
IT. position of national unity-that Il
TO solidarity with the class enemy,
as- before the war danger, and of tull
on, developed social-patriotlsnl. l
for France. the leaders Of the SILL
he have taken the same position
CIV, defend the interests of the Oou
ist @eoisie against "Hitler aggression
and now to implement the Leag'
list Covenant" by government san
px- tons. In August, the Eixecut1V
gue Committee of the Socialist and L
hour international adopted pr
aan gram of full-blooded soclal-patri
md tism. ..;ol;
- war means the struggle again
L.
ha>, the Second international.
nC ~ s During the past year, t
o,oo- Communist international has pr
ain sed from a policy which weaken
no and disorientated the revolutions.
o ne struggle against war to an acGl
IT, TTe esnonsal of the policies of cls
,1av truce and social-patr1otlsn: !,
! IN the Franco-Soviet Pact the SCal
pn ~ laval 10. communique, the conduct
+be the Soviet Union in the Leae
mo no during the development OF
hine Ethiopian crisis, and above az -
n lrIT tbe Seventh Congress Of the Z.
lit. the Communist international ST;
. .oC; Tr1T as the heir Of soc
,isie. democracy's betrayal on n the \ is. Is
So ~ of war. announcing itself as Ie'
. " " to do the hangman's job OF t. y
Their ING over the proletar1at Oh = =
IN, ! - land France and the U. S. to y
" IF national bourgeoisie in the con
- VEN [Tar in return for paper prom
iaIist Of protection for the borders Oh
ans an" 8 Soviet Union. In England,
lss" Communist party applaudIs the 5
void sition of the Labour Parry
,fGl% France the Communist party
state state ports enthusiastically the o "
= S'0 - Petravals of Blum and heI5
t t. and throughout the wo ar,an esl~