The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-03-20

I've tE throw. To Fascism as to war
mere is only one answer: the work
ers' revolution.
Defense of the Soviet Union
"a A closely similar preparation
LOT betrayal has gone on under
Sover OF the slogan, Defend the
Soviet Union!''
AS has already been indicated,
tne oeIense Of the Soviet Union is
One OF the primary tasks of the
working class in the coming war.
put to a Marxist, what does de-
tense OF the Soviet Union mean ?
Inc essence can be summed up
quickly. 1t means: extend the
october revolution" It means to
strengthen the economic and DO
ntlcal organizations of the world
p[o1etar1at, to carry the class
Struggle on world basis to ever
Hlgner levels, to drive toward the
WORKERS power. 1t means to put
all faith IN the working class. 1t
means to achieve victory in the
capitalist nations. And it means
tnese Things quite openly and re-
allstlcally. For these are the only
possible defense of the Soviet
Union.
To Stalinism, however. and to
the cynical Ahstro-Marxists, de-
tense of the Soviet Union means:
support the program of national
Bolshevlsm; no word of criticism
OF Stain and his bureaucratic
associates; put all faith in diplo-
matte deals with bourbeois powers,
in military alliances with France
and Czechoslovalia, in maneuver-
ing in the League of Nations; re-
duce the working class parties to
branches of the foreign office of
the Soviet state. And it means :
do not carry on genuinely revolu-
tlonary activities within your own
country, because this would upset
peace: permit the working class
of Germany and Austria to be
crushed under Fascism rather
than risk one ounce of cement at
at Dnieprostroy or one tractor at
Stalingrad. And, lastly, it means:
support the war policy of your
democratic government, and offer
the working class to the coming
imperialist war in all nations
where the bourgeoisie finds it's
imperialist aims best served by q
temporary alliance with the Soviet
bureaucracy.
Naturally, Marxists do not main
tain that the Soviet Union should
not whenever possible, utilize the
antagonisms and contradictions
among the imperialist powers tC
it's own advantage. This was the
tactic of Lenin. But this tactic
can only be understood as sub
ordinate to the strategy of the
world revolution, and this strategy
can base itself only on the inter.
national working class. Stains
"maneuverings" with imperialist
powers are the direct contrary Of
Lenin's. For Stain "maneuvers'
in such way as to subordinate
the working class to the capitalist
powers, not to advance it's inter.
ests. The Franco-Soviet Pact is
the most striking example of such
subordination-whereby the French
working class is turned over hand
and foot to the French bourgeoisie
SO long as the pact formally
endure - but this is only
one aspect of the consistent anC
continuous policy of Stalinism
Lenin, to prevent the capitalist
powers from attacking the Soviet
Union, placed his full reliance or
the only possible force which coulC
in actuality defend the Soviet
| Union: on the working class o.
the various capitalist powers. II
the working class and it's party
were sufficiently strengthened IL
a given country, Lenin reasoned
the government of that country
would not dare to attack the Soviet
Union, since it would realize that
such an attack would only pave the
Wav for its own overthrow. StaliT
with his eyes focused on nationa
Russian socialism, asks only fol
"peace" elsewhere, to let hin
build at home. He places his re-
lance, thus, not on the interna
tional working class, but on the
Friendly" capitalist governments
on any agreements or treaties OF
pacts he can come to with them
But to secure such friendship, h'
must direct the Communist partle;