Page of Study for Socialism CIENCE OF SOCIEIY Vhat Is Socialism ? 1. Workers’ Struggles | a Teach Them Politics an international scale to im- perialist wars of increasing Scope, intensity and destructive-. ness. © Oppression and ruthless ex- ploitation of the colonial and semi-colonial peoples, leading to revolutionary struggles on their part for national libera- tion: Indonesia, Indochina, In- dia. . . . And hence, the grow- ing alliance of the predomin- antly peasant colonial masses with the revolutionary working elass of the imperialist, oppres- sor countries. Conducted by STANLEY woven, entangled, and straineu to the breaking point. Capitalist decay is character- ized by “reaction all along the line:” the drive of the trusts towards fascist terrorism, un- bridled Big Business dictator- ship—the bloody fruits of Hit- lerism. The unparalleled feroc- ity of fascist reaction, its bes- tial rottenness, bear ‘witness “before the entire earth of the truth, that “imperialism is moribund, decaying capital- ism.” Imperialism corrupts a sec- e@ National Educatienal Director B. RYERSON oped to such a high stage that it creates monopolies which play a decisive role in eco- homie life.. : © “The merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this ‘finance capital, of a ‘fi- nancial oligarchy. @® “The export of capital, which has become extremely important, as _ distinguished from the export of commodi- ties. @ The formation of interna- *HE “mission”’ of capitalism in history, as distinct from tion on the labor movement. earlier forms of class society, is twofold: it drastically @ Under imperialism ali of these contradictions are inter- The split m that movement is inseparably bound up with the tional capitalist monopolies which share the world among themselves. increases the productive forces of society (from vil- ‘smithy to the giant steel plant, for instance; and it tlizes the labor process (social labor replaces indi- bal, artisan labor). Because of private, individual owner- of the expanding means of social production, the con- - and antagonisms within capitalism become ever more t. Imperialism, the monopoly stage of capitalism, sss these contradictions to the breaking point. objective conditions of imper- jialism. The Big Business em- Pires create a privileged layer of “labor aristocracy,” corrupt them with crumbs from colonial super-profits, and thereby en- gender opportunism. The es- sence of social democratism (the policies of Ramsay Mac- donald, Bevin and Attlee in Bri- tain, the CCF in Canada)—is the transmission into the labor movement of the outlook, poli- cies and aims of monopoly cap- ital. The winning of working class power for the establishment of Socialism is impossible with- out complete defeat of oppor- tunism. That is the outstanding pol- itical lesson of Lenin’s teach- ing on imperialism. @ “The territorial division of the whole world’ among the greatest capitalist powers is completed. “Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the dominance of monop- lies and finance capital has es- tablished itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced i “hen a big enterprise as- cS gigantic proportions, ion the basis of exact com- ‘ion of mass data, organ- iccording to plan the sup- 9€ primary raw materials .e extent of two-thirds, or +-fourths of all that is ne- try for tens of millions of te: when the raw materials transported to the most ible place of production, Stimes hundreds of thous- * of miles away, in a sys- ‘Hic and organized. manner; a single centre directs all successive stages of work 1 up te the manufacture ‘umeroeus varieties of fin- articles; when these pro- are distributed according . single plan among tens of reds of millions of con- ots (as in the case of the ibution of oil in America Germany by the American trust’) then it becomes mt that we have socializa- of production ...” CLenin, 2rialism.) ment; it has created the ma- terial conditions for _ social ownership of the social produc- tive forces: for Socialism. But this all takes place with- in the hard shell of private, monopoly ownership of the productive forces. The period of capitalist decay set in. The contradictions of capitalism in this, its last stage, find a three- fold expression: importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the divi- — sion of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the division of all ter- ritories of the globe among the great capitalist powers has been completed.”? —(Lenin’s Im- perialism, Chap, VII.) ® (Capital vs. Labor: the 6 trusts against the working class. Battles such as American labor is waging today—teach- ing the workers that their in- terests are those of a class, im- pelling them toward political struggle as a class; and point- ing finally to the necessity of taking over the means of pro- duction, the establishment of working class power. October, 1927, confirmed in action the prediction of the Communist Manifesto (1848), and of Len- in’s Imperialism (1916). “Im- perialism is the eve of the So- cialist revolution.” QUESTIONS 1. What is meant by the “mis- sion” of capitalism in history? Q.—What is the briefest pos- sible definition. of imperialism? A.—The best and most com- prehensive short definition of. imperialism is the famous one from lLenin’s book of that name. The definition appears below in full: @® “The concentration of production and capital devel- 2. What are the main groups of contradictions under imper- ialism? 8. Define Fascism. Is it a ‘new stage” of capitalism. 4. Explain the basis of Se- cial-Democratic opportunism, COME AND MEET & Dorise W. Nelsen at the @® Struggle between capital- ists: under imperialism, the @ free competition of small .en- terprises. is completely over- shadowed by the conflicts of giant monopolies and the Big Business empires, leading on *ERIALISM is capitalism hich has, historically, ‘hed the limit of its develop- Labor-Progressive Party DINNER and DANCK Hastings Auditorium | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd 7PM. . $1.50 Per Person Wrong School Teachers WINCH tain elements in the working class submit to the corruption Big Business empires which first create a lay of labor aris- rats” and then wins them over with crumbs from their Super nial profits. The aim of this privileged layer is to insti ine look, policies and objectives of monopoly capital among. the kers. Some, like Bevin of England, come from the tra ie es vement. Others, like Attlee of England and Winch of anad e eive the workers by describing and upholding state capita’ Socialism. 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