America «Pacifism» in Europe and. Litvinov are The hubbub being created around the By MAX SHACHTMAN posals say nothing of the sort!
issue raised by the likelihood that Germany What a crushing refutation of the inconwill be obliged to suspend reparations pay. parations but we ll have nothing to do As at Brest Litovsk, as at Genoa, so ceivably silly charge of Soviet dumping. ments, a condition directly traceable to with the dirty business. It is true that everywhere else the Soviets must show to Do you want to stop dumping? Then let the Versailles treaty provisions and ag arguments are being made by ignoble pow the whole working class that it deals with all nations pledge themselves to sell no gravated by the present world crisis, ers that unless they get reparations from the bourgeoisie not because it has an ounce goods in the world market cheaper than serves to give new point to America imGermany, they shall be unable to pay back of faith in its professed intentions, its they sell these goods in their counperialist role in Europe on the one hand, what they owe the United States. But we good will, its friendliness or peaceable try! What could more simple. We and on the other to the outstanding fea have adopted policy which says that ness. but because the solitary existence of can really thing of nothing more simple or ture of the recent Geneva conference the these arguments are false and may not be a capitalistically encircled proletarian state more fantastic! What argument more Litvinov proposals.
advanced. Let the reparations business be compels negotiations, trade agreements, convincing? To whom? Pioneers, perhaps?
Germany Plight settled between Germany and England, commercial and diplomatic intercourse etc. Although the Soviet proposal is the France and Belgium. We want none of etc. This at least, was the course in The plight of German capitalism is unvery soul of logic Ahem. the imperialist it. Our sympathies are with the cruelly mistakably a serious one. For the four Lenin time. The absolutely uncalled for robbers and war makers will undoubtedly years following the inauguration of the driven German people.
Soviet procedure at the Genera Economic seek for some hole to crawl through in an Dawes Plan, Germany was able to meet its Germany annual 200 000. 000 repara Conference in 1927, its equally baseless ac effort to explain to their peoples that the involuntary obligations to its conquerors tions payment to the Allies is one thing. tion in signing the imperialistic Kellogg Soviet proposal is utopian. The Soviet by borrowing extensively from them.
in one blow has shattered the charge of The But the shipment from the Allies to the Peace Pact to Outlaw War. show how far balance sheet remained virtually the same, United States, containing exactly the same the present regime in Russia has strayed dumping. proposed that the standard of while Germany indebtedness was in real sum, is another thing. It is in honorable from this course, Litvinov conduct at living of the toiling masses be raised trade ity not diminished and no sound basis ac debt consecrated on the battlefield. That Geneva last month has only meant that rivalries abolished and the danger of war tually laid for its economic recovery. With dispelled. Dally Worker, 20 1931. we want. Welching on debts is not the the rudder is being pressed harder in the the decline of Germany investment needs, American style. It is true that Europe wrong direction.
At One Single Blow!
indeed, its decreased ability to absorb these economic system makes debt payments difThe European Commission has been At one blow, neither more nor less!
investments, plus the ensuing of capital ficult. Good. We an understanding established by French imperialism to pre According, then, to the neev revelation people. But the money is there from which side over the birth of Briand utopian ism most violent crisis, Germany has been driven to the very brink of the abyss. The from Mount Litvinov, if imperialism would payments can be made. So we propose says Pan Europa the French plan for exworld crisis has created a situation where only consent to function without dumping the ingenious Mr. Borah, alias Mr. Hoover, tending its Little Entente until it covers on the world market a proposal which we due to the fall of prices on the internation that you cut down on your armament exmost, if not all of Europe. The official are assured is not utopian. trade rivalries al market. the gold value provided for penditures! This will kill, in the best AmComintern press has even characterized it would be wiped out and the danger of war under the Young Plan for reparations has erican style of mass output, four as intended chiefly to organize the anti Sordispelled. This gospel we want to call it increased to an extent that makes them birds at once. a) it will lighten Tour iet interventionist bloc. Some months ago reactionary poison but it is simply crass, equal to the payments fixed under the budgets and the burden upon your sorely this same press was filled with accounts acabysmal ignorance is taught to the workDawes Plan which the former was intended taxed people. b) it will enable you to cording to which the Moscow trial of the ing class not only by the diplomatic repto modify.
maintain a good business name by paying sabotaging engineers has demonstrated that resentative of the Soviet Union who Unable to pay from its dwindling gold your debts, which is good for the soul. c) Poincare. Briand, the French General Staff. speaks to the world masses over the reserves (Germany has less than per it will give further security to the mainthe Polish government the, Rumanian pupheads of the bourgeois robbers. but by the cent of the world gold holdings, compared tenance of world peace by softeuing the pets of France, etc. etc. were conspiring central organ of official American Communwith more than 39 percent in the United belligerent mien of Europe: and (d. for active intervention against the Soviet ism. But things cannot rest there. The States and almost 20 percent in France. which is not the least important bird it republic. Here is a fact of no mean interSoviet proposalmade, in the words of it is more than ever compelled to pay in will further insure the military predomin national political import. But at Geneva, Eriand, with that moderation of Litgoods. But at the present time, this in ance of American imperialism in the world the Soviet representative not only fails to vinor to which we all pay homage. is volves not only a decrease in German im political struggle!
put some pertinent questions, concerning meant to outlaw economic warfare just ports which does not help to liquidate ac These are the proposals of the United the conspiracy to the representatives of as the Kellogg Pact outlawed war. Why cumulated world stocks by one iota. but States which have caused such consterna France, but does not even refer to the doesn the Daily Worker, which endorses an increase of its exports. The Austro tion in European capitals. In a word: The matter at all. Worse than that, the speechthe one, also endorse the other? Is there es and the relations between the represenGerman tariff union is but one step in this European plan is to link reparations and a fundamental distinction? We see none.
direction; the contracted world market and war debts and keep disarmament schemes tatives of Communism and imperialism When Stalin signed the Kellogg Pact, the the growing customs walls throughout Eur. separate; the American plan is to link are marked by a politeness and mutual Daily Worker at least had the. decency ope to say nothing of the United States war debts and disarmament schemes (for back slapping which brings farce to the relief of its tragedy.
to keep quiet and to cover up the scandal demonstrates the improbability of effecting Europe to be sure) and keep reparations by heaping denunciation upon the Pact in a solution of Germany ills in the direction separate. What more profitable role than Congenial Commissioner general. It is clear that the policies of of increased exports. The national deficit this could the nited States wish for a It was not, remarks the New York Stalinism are causing the Dally Worker to of the Reich is mounting steadily and is role which calls for its assumption of the Times (5 19 1931. the Litvinov one was surrender even the last few tatters of decoupled with the failure of the new tax pencemaker garments? And what more used to hearing here in the Preparatory cency it had left.
mensures to bring in even as much as the classic instance could be giver since the Disarmament Commission who spoke today. One might continue with even more previous taxes did. The rising umemploy day when Wilson fourteen peaceful points The Soviet Foreign Commissioner amazed detailed comment upon the Litvinov proment does not help the situation. The grow were viven to Europe as the basis for Am all ly his conciliatory tone and by fore posal. There is, for instance, the illiterate ing division of the nation forces into the erica issuing out of the war with the kuing the opportunity to exploit capitalist apology for Litvinov by Harrison George Fascist and the Communist camp serve as lion share of the spoils, of the fact that ills for the glory of Communism. If (5 29 1931) who was transferred from his the political reflection of the aenteness America pacifism is the handmaiden that strippeil of a few few indeed! typie. cage on column seven to Anter place on which the contradictions in Germany posibest serves the interests of a repacious, ally communist expressions this speech) column one to explain we quote literallytion are assuming at home.
bandit imperialism, that most successfully might have been spoken by some economist that Litvinor is only asking that the UnWith this distracting picture looming invests its progress with the treacherous of one of a number of bourgeois schools. ited States obey its own law. But there before them, the German bourgeoisie march aura of benevolence?
Am. Litvinov adds: do think low has already been enough to show that the es hat in hand from Genera to Chequers Americas pacifism in solving the ever, that something might be done for the socialist New Leader, usually rabidly antibegging that the pressure be relaxed the European crisis or at least one highly im removal of phenomena unnecessarily as Soviet. Was eminently correct when it wrote noose loosened, and Germany be allowed portant phase of it is its unique form of gravating our relations and prolonging the eulogistically (5 23 1931) that Litvinov once more to brenthe lest the Eastern expanding its imperialistic power and crush world «risis. This requires the avoidance spoke like a socialist who has belief in de rampart of European civilization be razed iny its rivals in the struggle for world of everything tending to an atmosphere of mocracy. And the world listened seriously.
by the fury of Bolshevism. But in Gen power. It is a sham pacifism, a scoundrel distrust.
Litvinor may consider this a complement era, in Paris, in Chequers, it is met with ly deception, utopia as disastrous an Distrust of whom and by whom? The from a foe. We regard it as an epitaph for the same helpless shrugging of the shoul illusion for those whom it fools as was bourgeoisie will distrust the Soviet Un. the degenerated Centrist bureaucracy.
ders. Briand and Henderson express their Wilsonism for the war weary masses ion so long as it exists, and for good cause.
most deepfelt sympathies, but alas! they are Europe in 1917 1918.
The bourgeoisie laughs up its sleeve when themselves heavily indebted to the rich THE UNIFICATION OF THE CHINESE Although not produced by any imperLitvinor or Stalin asks it to put trust uncle across the sea. and if Germany is ialist ambitions or requirements, a pacifist in Russia readiness to adhere to the OPPOSITION not to pay the Allied debts to the United cloudburst of another variety equally nauprinciple of the peaceful. co existence Dear Comrades of the Secretariat and States under the euphemistic title of war seating. equally utopian. equally blusory of the two systems. Briand, Henderson. Trotsky: reparations who will? For out of Ger has just drenched Europe and sent its Curtins Aleski and Co. are quite willing The Unification Conference of the many annual reparations payments of rapors around the world. Its artificer, to sign any document or peace pact. It Chinese Opposition took place on the hisapproximately a quarter of billion dol Litvinor alias Stalin, represents the policosts nothing and this time with Soviet torical day of May First in Shanghai. Ser.
lars to the European war victors, the lat tical antipode of the United States the it id it helps them to poison the minds of enteen representatives were present, and ter are making annual debt payments of Soviet Union. Emanating from the spokes. the masses who are suspicious about the in addition from delegates with advisory approximately a quarter of a billion dol man for the Soviet Union, with its im bourgeoisies pacitism. Or does Litvinor rights. They represented a total of 483 memlars to the United States. And with Sec mense prestige and authority in the world mean that the Soviet nion must stop dis.
bers (all of four groups. The Conference retary Vellon announcement of a treasury working class, this variety of pacifism.
trusting the Briands and MacDonalds? adopted our common platform and other deficit of a billion dollars, it is hardly class collaboration can only have a more Matter stand no better with regard to resolutions which were worked out by the likely that the United States, which is nefarious effect if anything. Our the famous referLitvinor protocol itself. unification commission. National Execuitself the very soul of honor and punetili ence is to the disgraceful conduct of the Litvinor proceeded to explain that his tive Committee (consisting of nine mem ousness in business matters, will consent Soviet delegation at the recently concluded protocol meant to do for economie warfare bers and four candidates) was elected, to remit the debts honorably incurred and Genera sessions of Briand European what the Briand Kellogg peace pact did from which a Secretariat of five was chosen.
solemnly pledged for by the Allies.
Commission, that is the anteroom of the to war to outlaw it, the Times (5 22.
The name of our organization was made But lest it be said that the United black League of Nations.
1931) informs 118 It would. prevent The Left Opposition of the Chinese ComStates is close fisted, chauvinistic unrelent That the workers state is not only discrimination against any one country or munist Party. Its organ is to be called ing it takes the opportunity offered by Ger justified, but is under compulsion to take group of countries saying in other words Spark. Our platform and resolutions many destitution to demonstrate to the advantage of the world capitalist crisis in that the main iden (so. was to assure will be translated into European languages entire world its entirely pacific nature and order to improve its own position even, if the peaceful co existence of the Communist in the nearest future.
its magnanimity towards the oppressed necessary, at the cost of some assistance and capitalist systems. That whese two The Chinese Opposition has been inGerman people. This far from means feat to the world bourgeoisie or sections of it systems cannot exist peacefully side by side ited. This has provoked a great deal of is now being a complished by the Hoover can be denied only by dunderheads who is an ABC truth for any Marxist, not attention both from the reaction and from administration, if not officially, then just know nothing about the requirements of to speak of any class conscious bourgeois; the working masses. We believe that under as authoritatively through the mouth of revolutionary policy. But when a concesthe contrary idea is a stupid, reactionary the leadership of the International Left OpSenator Borah, who is at least as much the sion is given, it must be called a conces.
invention of Stalinism upon which the position, it can and will carry on its great Secretary of State as the formal occupant When a deal is made its nature must equally reactionary theory of socialism in historical task. We hope that between the of that post, Stimson. How? Simply be established openly so that the workers one country is founded. As to what his Secretariat and the Chinese section there follows: the world over wil have neither misgivprotocol meant. let us with comment will be a constant and close relation.
The American Plan ings nor illusions. The vigilance of the for a moment until we read the miserable The news about the burning of com1.
workers, concerned We want not a cent from the Gerover manner in which the central organ of the the unflagging rade Trotsky library was brought us by hostility of the bourgeois world towards American Communist Party tries to palm man people. We never started the war; the bourgeois press and confirmed by your the workers state, must not be slackened off this cheap pacifist counterfeit as good we were dragged into it. We wanted a circular. We have appointed a special comor lulled. In other words, the policy of Bolshevik coin: peace without victory. We did not sign the mittee for contributions.
humiliating Versailles treaty. We have rethe Soviet Union in foreign affairs. which The meaning of the Soviet proposals With Opposition greetings, can only be a linear extension of its policy is the revelation that only the Soviet sysceived no reparations, and unlike other Secretariat of the Left Opposition of nowers, we want no reparations. The others at home, must always have a clear class tem can guarantee peace to the world the Chinese Communist Party. press the bled Germans for their re basis.
peoples revelation indeed, for the pro Secretary, Tchen Du Siu.
of sion.
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