Stalin Grants wo Interviews It can do any harm. No, none except immediately met with violent resistance to create the illusion in the minds of the workers that the League of Nations and its by the whole Stalinist apparatus. Browder By MAX SHACHTMAN subsidiaries can be reformed step by step and the other Jorges poured sulphur and by means Stalin continues his remarks, and of injecting a few healthy Taking advantage of the unusual interpitch upon it. It was denounced as little, goes clauses here and there, which means, in est aroused by the rumor of his assassina from bad to worse.
reality, giving the imperialist war mongers if any, better than social fascisin.
tlon, Stalin has availed himself of the col Can capitalist and Communist systems the first place, it ran counter to the canonand their machinations a convenient shield umns of the capitalist press of the world to co exist peaceably, asked Lyons of the ized theory of a self sufficient socialist socfrom the distrust of the world proletariat. iety in Russia. Secondly, it was a proexpound his viewpoint on a number of United Press.
questions of the hour. More than a year It is possible, Stalin replied, The Dally Worker Silent Aguin posal to help capitalism solve its unemAgo, comrade Trotsky, placed in a somewhat and the best proof is that they have lived Here again, the Dally Worker mainployment crisis. Thirdly, fourthly, fifthsimilar situation by the sensation aroused peacefully side by side since the conclusion taing a tight lipped silence. Not a word Iy and tenthly, it was proposed by the opby his deportation to Turkey, also made use of our civil war and the intervention perof quotation or comment on Stalin reposition which, as every member of the of the capitalist press to publish the stand iod. Telegram, November 24. marks about the Geneva Conference and Political Bureau is taught in the Lenin point of the Communist Opposition, so as To make sure of this incredible de Litvinov participation. Isn it pertinent School, is counter revolutionary. Now the to acquaint the workers of the world with claration, Duranty asked a few days later: idea has been taken off the index expurgato inquire about the reason for the omiswhat it really stood for. You see, then, no reason why capitalist sion? Has Stalin one theory of the revotorious and the official imprimatur affixed In both cases, the utilization of the and Communist systems should not exist lution or working class readers who buy to it by the hand of Stalin himself. Listen enemy press was quite Justified. for the side by side without fighting?
the capitalist press, and another theory for to how he laughs out of court yesterday dramatic interest centering around the in They have not fought for ten years, the readers who buy the Daily Worker?
pitiful arguments of Browder and Co. dividuals in question made 10 possible for said Stalin dryly, which means they can Which theory does he believe? Which shall them not only to give expression to the They provide equipment and technical co exist. Times, December we believe? And above all, which theory help don they? And we pay them, don cause they defend, but virtually to compel Lenin, who lived neither in the third is believed or should be believed by the we, for everything pay top prices, tou, as the bourgeois press to print whatever they period nor in the period of Stalin wisworkers, who still read a thousand Tele.
said. The Stalinists, at the time of Trotyou and obey know. You might as well dom, was of a fundamentally different opin.
grams and Timeses to one Daily Worker?
say that we sky articles in the capitalist press, preThere is one more point in Stalin inarming Americans and ion, that is, he defended a Marxist position tended a virtuous indignation of which they while Stalin defends the standpoint of blind terviews, the one the bourgeois press unhelping to maintain their canitalist system are really incapable. We saw nothing re liberalism derlined: trade with the United States. It against ours. No, he One can quote from his writcontinued more prehensive in the action at that time, and ings and speeches a thousand sentences it cannot establish political ties with the softly, that is nonsense. That isn the Just as little in Stalin today. What the which are a crushing refutation of Stalin United States, the Soviet Union at least point at all. Times, December What revolutionist is concerned about is. WHAT astounding remarks. We take a few at ran desires to strengthen its economic ties with a scathing remark to make about so loyni a 18 said and for what purpose, for the bour dom America. And America being a great, weal servitor as Browder. geols press of the world is still read in World imperialism side by side with thy. technically progressive and developed There remains, however, a difference preference to the strictly working class a victorious onslaught of the social revocountry. must appreciate the advantages between Stalin appeal for trade relations press.
lution cannot get along together. Vol. 15, of such economic intercourse as much as What Trotsky Did and the Oppositions. The first is not only we do. Telegram, November 24. page 175. not addressed to the workers, but it does Trotsky seized the opportunity to pre We do not live merely in a state but Stalin Catches p with the Opposition not even mention their role in it, the mansent the revolutionary point of view to in a system of states and the existence of As it stands, no serious person can ner in which the interests of employed the worker readers of the bourgeois press, the Soviet Republic side by side with im have objection to it. But there is never and employed are so directly connected to make an ardent defense of the October peralist states for any length of time is in theless a contradiction here. number of with the welfare of the Soviet Union and revolution against the onslaughts of the coneelvable. In the end, one or the other months ago, dealing with the state of world Its economic advancement. Instead, it is world bourgeoisie and the sapping work of must triumph. Vol. 17, page 197. unemployment on the one hand, and the addressed to the bourgeoisie. It is quite the Thermidorians in the Soviet Union. His As long as we still have capitalism difficulties being encountered by the Five true that they must be spoken too as well, articles constituted a Bolshevik banner, a but then Stalin should at the same time and socialism we cannot live pencefully, Year Plan on the other, comrade Trotsky rallying point, a cry to awaken the world either one or the other will be the victor advanced the idea that the Communists in apologize to the workers for having perworking class to the dangers menacing the in the end. The obituary will have to be the Soviet Union and the capitalist coun mitted Molotov and Manuilsky and their proletarian dictatorship.
sung either over the death of world capital.
tries should elaborate an international cam lesser lights to denounce the Opposition How do matters stand, however, with ism or the death of the Soviet republic.
paign aiming at the extension of large, because we proposed among other things Stalin interviews (New York Telegram, Now we have only a respite in the war.
long term credits to Russia for the pur. an economic collaboration between the November 24, and New York Times, Decem. Vol. 17, page 398. And so on, ad infinitum. chase of machinery to assist the Five Year and the Mueller government in ber Their principal virtue perhaps Plan, and to ameliorate to an extent the Germany and the MacDonald regime in their only virtue is the fact that they are The Ten Years of leace sufferings of the unemployed by the fact England. And we are still waiting for the an accurate picture of Stalin, his dull emStalin ten years of socialist capital that certain industries would be set going American Party chiefs to accept the logic piricism, his vulgar practicality. his ist peace cover the period of the Arcos and throngh Soviet orders for machinery. Our of Stalin statements and the proposals of ignorance and contempt Bolshevik Peking raids, the attack on the Chinese readers are sufficiently acquainted with the the Opposition to launch a campaign along theory and principle. So striking are all Eastern Railway, the breaking of relations proposal to obviate any elaboration of it the lines sketched in our plan. It is overthese with Russia by England and France, the here.
traits, that even the Dally Worker due.
murder of Volkov in Poland, the permandoes not dare as much as to mention the outstanding point in his interview, while ent conspiracies of all capitalist countries the Fretheit editors consider it either go against the culminatng in the scandalous or so insignificant, that they do very trial now going on in Moscow. and other facts far too numerous to mention. number of Inquiries concerning our or its third period absurdities and monnot even report it by a single line! few Obviously, if this is the peaceful co existposition on the articles by comrade Albert quotations will make clear the reason.
strous exaggerations in connection with the Weisbord ence, wbat will War resemble?
which he advanced ConThe International Stalinist strategy in slogan for fighting the police. Weisbord That is why the Dally Worker, which crete Program on the Unemployed have the Communist movement centers around only deepens its error. The class conscious been received. The article was printed as vanguard is exceedingly small today. It the slogan, theory, and agitation for the quoted much from Stalin interview (November did not even mention the quotaa contribution to the discussion. It does is confronted by a working class virtually Defense of the Soviet Union against the tion we made above. Why not? Either ft not coincide wtih our point of view. everywhere on the defensive, and its main War Danger. The prevailing theory is We are in agreement with those points problem is the organization of a defensive that if the Soviet Union can merely prevent is a mis quotation, in which case it should in Weisbord articles which deal with the resistance to the onslaught of the bourobviously be exposed. Or else It is cormilitary intervention, then a self sufficient rectly reported, in which case it is of concrete steps to be taken to organize the geoisie. The Party mistakes this defensive socialist society can be constructed within such tremendous importance that it should unemployed workers and their families, national boundaries.
for an offensive, and hall its blunders are The abstract cry rooted in this radically false conception.
be blazoned in the headlines. Of course, that is, into block committees in the pro Defend the Soviet Union is daily dinned the simple truth is that neither the Daily letarian quarters, into a form of tenants Weisbord, however, even goes further, into the ears of the official Communist Worker nor the Freiheit dared to reprint leagues for the purpose of resisting evic and arrives at the extremely ultra Leftist Party press readers.
Stalin assuming these thoroughly reactionary words of tions for non payment of rents, etc. etc. conception of an impending revolutionary that he intended to direct his remarks to Stalin they were too strong for the stomThis task has been neglected by the move situation in the country. No other view the workers, and not to Messrs. Hoover, ach. The Daily Worker made up for its ment up to now and must be carried out. can explain such terms as these, in consiAdolph Ochs and Roy Howard should have whipped dog silence on Stalin by publishing Our divergences with Weisbord occur deration of the present relation of forces emphasized this danger and called upon a hysterical column of pernicious anaemia chietly at the point where he sets tasks in the country: The Party wants to fight the workers to ward it off. Instead, he by Browder, denouncing the ppos for this movement, where he estimates the police. Good. And further: Here said everything he could to minimize this. counter revolutionists and stool pig by implication at least the period of dev. in proletarian neighborhoods) the fight danger, and even to eliminate it. We Quote eons. And there is nothing surprising in elopment the movement as a whole finds can spread. The police cannot easily sur from the Duranty dispatch to the Times. this, for even medical science teaches us itself in, and where he repeats his propos round it. Shops and factories can be (Duranty is one of the staunchest support that a poisoned organism, like an attack of als in relation to the Party and to the pulled on strike and swept into battle. In ers of the Stalin regime and his reports rabies, always brings foam to the mouth Lovestone faction.
short, here the police are weakest and the may be relied upon for accuracy insofar and prevents coherent speech. Browder. It is false to state that the whole im workers strongest. Through the fighting as he quotes Stalin, at leat. we therefore assume, is a subject for mediate objective of the unemployment squads organized by the block groups, a Too Late treatment by a science other than political, movement is to seize things necessary to whole section of the city could be held. Both of them (1. e. the socalled hotand we do not feel ourselves competent to live. The acquisition of living necessi Since cities, or sections of them, are not headed bourgeois and the cautious bourgeeffect any cures or give any advice in that ties and resistance to evictions is indeed held merely for the holding, but because ols) would readily crush a weak enemy it sphere. one of the principal tasks not only of the the question of seizure of power has been We learn further from Stalin the exit could be done with little or no risk, but unemployed, but of their fellow workers raised, Weisbord views are not only acti reason for the disgraceful conduct of for the moment no such easy and profitable still at work, but not the whole of it. harshly out of harmony with the views of the Soviet delegation to the Geneva arms, adventure offers itself.
the Opposition but also with the elementary They might have The principal problem is the mobilization tried it against the five or six and even for its participation.
of the employed and unemployed into a realities of the situation. Less emphasis Stalin has no hope that anything con united movement for a struggle around on fight the police (it is clear, the workyears ago, but they waited too long. It is structive will come out of the Geneva Disers three principal demands: the six hour day must defend themselveg ardently now too late. armament Conference. Nevertheless he said and five day week without wage reductions, against police attacks and brutalities, but Stalin hurled out the last words. withhe felt the Soviet governmat could not social insurance, and immediate relief by certainly not in an offensive sense, with a out raising his voice but with a sudden abstain from any effort (90. however the state and the employers. The socalled view to holding a whole section of the access of restrained power that had an weak, toward peace. He said Litvinov might food riots are a by product, and under city. and more emphasis on the practical Impact like a blow.
succeed in Injecting a few healthy clauses certain conditions an aid, in the fight for needs and interests of the movement, which On the same day, the printers in the (now then. here and there. Anyway, he these demands, and require a previous correspond to its stage of developmentDally Worker were setting up headlines, said, It can do any harm to participate in deep going organization of the masses, the those are urgent requirements of the momsome of which read: Canadian Bogg, De the conference.
arousing of their sentiments for struggle, ent.
terding and Standard Oil for War on But these very same reasons can be and establishment of safeguards against the Further, we disagree sharply with Latest Steps in Anti Soviet War advanced to justify Joining the League of degeneration of such a movement into pet Weisbord ridicule of the proposals adPlot (eight are listed. with a leading edi Nations, that is, the Black International ty bourgeois anarchist swamps. But they vanced by the Left Opposition for longtorial to the same effect. But if it Is now which fathers the Disarmament Confer are far from the whole immediate objec term credits to the Soviet Union as a means too late, it the bourgeoisie has waitied ences. And, further, if one finally decides tive.
of ameliorating the hardships of the untoo long (we believe neither of these 80 to participate in the disarmament conMatters are worse with the perspectives employed in capitalist countries and of the lacing oplates. why all the excitement ferences, it should not be done in the dipof struggle of this movement, which in Five Year Plan in Russia. Such credits about the war danger against the lomatic manner of Litvinov and Stalin (to volves an estimate of its state of develop will not only permit Russia to purchase Not content with this smug agsertion, which we refer elsewhere in this issue) but ment. Instead of a criticism of the Party (Continued on Page 8)
Weisbord Proposals on Unemployment