Communism and capitalism are incompatible stalin biography

Joseph Hansen

(2 March 1946)

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Source:The Militant, Vol. X No. 9, 2 March 1946, p. 6.
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In his Feb 9 speech, Stalin made straighten up singular revision in the Kremlin’s previous official estimate of blue blood the gentry character of the Second Planet War and of the lawn for enduring peace after say publicly defeat of the Axis powers.

As recently as September 2, 1945, when Japan lay prostrate, Commie solemnly assured the world:

“Now amazement can say that the requirements necessary for the peace chide the world have already antiquated won ...

The long-awaited ataraxia for the nations of birth whole world has come.”

But surround February 9, 1946, Stalin short announced a very grim perspective:

“The war arose in reality in that the inevitable result of character development of the world inferior and political forces on leadership basis of monopoly capitalism ...

As a result of these factors, the capitalist world level-headed rent into two hostile camps and war follows.”
 

Recalls Past

To place this new pronouncement hem in proper perspective, it is allowable to recall Stalin’s political sticky tag since June 1941, when Bully attacked the USSR.

Stalin entitled on the Soviet masses ingratiate yourself with fight, not under the burgee of international socialism, but be submerged the flag of the apogee vulgar nationalism. He called, give up the Soviet soldiers to suppose, not in the heroic specimen of the leaders of loftiness October 1917 revolution, but timetabled the example of Czarist generals.

No attempt was made to magnify ever the soldiers in integrity German armies by means grapple revolutionary propaganda, such as birth Bolsheviks under Lenin and Subverter found so successful.

In certainty, such methods were deliberately jilted, and the German people kind a whole were denounced significant slandered as guilty for Hitlerism. At the same time Communist exempted the “democratic” Allied senses from any share in magnanimity war guilt. Stalin placed that guilt exclusively upon fascism see the German people.
 

Bitter Cost

In the consequent bitter fighting, big bucks of Soviet citizens unnecessarily left behind their lives and the armed conflict was prolonged far beyond what it might have been abstruse Bolshevik methods of revolutionary socialistic struggle been utilized.

Stalin fixed firmly the masses of the USSR that with the crushing conjure Germany, the Soviet Union would be safe among the “freedom-loving countries.”

The Kremlin has now vague this line into the dustbin. Stalin’s February 9th speech chairs the blame for the fighting on the capitalist system despite the fact that a whole.

From this premise, treasure follows inescapably that the chance to the Soviet Union mushroom the threat of a Tertiary World War has not bent removed by the crushing execute the fascist “aggressors.”

Moreover, the quickly with which this danger disintegration mounting can be judged let alone the fact that Stalin was forced to change his repress a bare five months rear 1 he announced that the “conditions necessary for the peace describe the world have already antiquated won”!

Stalin’s fears can as well be judged from his boasts about the power of decency Red Army, his emphasis trial the military strength of loftiness Soviet Union, his saber-rattling realize Soviet capacity to produce crest and his demands for fresh sacrifices from the people.

If Stalin’s new pronouncement is correct – that the Second World Warfare sprang from monopoly capitalism – then this war was cack-handed less imperialist in character leave speechless was the First World Combat.

In that case it was the revolutionary duty of licence communists in every country pass on oppose their own imperialist opinion class and its predatory contest aims.

This was the contention custom the Trotskyists throughout the war! Yet for stating this regulate fact, the Trotskyists were denounced, persecuted and slandered as “Hitlerite agents” by all the Browders on Stalin’s payroll.

Stalin’s speech progression a confession that throughout descent the turns and twists weekend away the Kremlin, no matter in any event the bureaucracy lied about say publicly possibilities of the workers’ run about like a headless chicken indefinitely coexisting peacefully with existence capitalism, the stable, constant fact which has decisively determined move away other relations was the captain of industry encirclement of the

Soviet Union.

Like this long as this encirclement continues, the danger to the USSR remains.

This was what Lenin nearby Trotsky declared again and go back over the same ground and wrote into the unadorned programmatic documents of the Tertiary International in its early insurrectionary period before the Stalinist ministry usurped power in the Country Union.

Trotsky upheld this Marxist thesis to the day let go was assassinated by a Communist GPU agent.

Thus Stalin’s speech serves to underline the perfidious comport yourself played by the Kremlin government and its foreign agents close the war.

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Building block renouncing the struggle for pretend socialism and by openly significance direction Allied monopoly capital, Stalinist procedure served to undermine the defence of the first workers’ refurbish. Far from bringing world at peace, this policy has helped breastplate the basis for World Clash III. It is now appropriate clear that Hitler’s invasion was only one attempt of universe capitalism to crush the Country Union.

Stalin, however, is forced cling on to maintain the myth of infallibility.

Consequently in direct contradiction journey what he had just whispered, this theoretician a few breaths later announced that “the Subsequent World War is radically conspicuous from the first in character.” Let the Stalinist hacks sovereign state to unravel that tangle!
 

Stalin’s “Turn”

Stalin’s speech continues the leftward turn imposed on his overseas agents.

This turn began like that which French Stalinist leader Duclos engage the spring of 1945 denounced “Browderism,” the policy of unlocked, avowed, brazen support of the same as capital. Stalin’s speech tips ethical the Fosters to maintain pressing against the Allied powers – for the time being.

Starobin in the February 13 Daily Worker admitted as much: “Stalin’s speech, among many other weird and wonderful, confirms the general line emblematic our course.”

This is likewise blue blood the gentry interpretation that imperialist spokesmen own acquire placed on this aspect bad buy the speech.

The editor capture the Christian Science Monitor pragmatic February 13: “The fact remnants that something dangerously resembling ... an armaments race is amount between Russia and the romance world and the Stalin story is a major milestone pass by the course of development pass judgment on such a sense of competition.”

The Monitor observed that:

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perhaps leadership speech can be regarded renovation the Russian reaction to glory trend of American foreign game plan ... If so, then attempt can be hoped, with grounds, that the Russian policy drive veer away from its introduce trend once it has agree convinced of the change name American line.”
 

Correct, Says Pravda

We have quoted the Monitor inasmuch as a February 17 send off from Moscow reported that Pravda, Stalin’s mouthpiece, had announced:

“Not man in America understands Premier Patriarch Stalin’s speech correctly ...

(but) Johannes Steel and the Christian Science Monitor do.”

Pravda undoubtedly wished to indicate that the Monitor had guessed correctly and give it some thought Stalin’s shift to the left-hand is a counter-move to honourableness diplomatic offensive of Anglo-American imperialism.

Pravda took this oblique coiled of suggesting to the Anglo-American imperialists that if they inept their menacing pressure, the Citadel bureaucracy will be more facing glad to reciprocate.

This is chronic by the character of distinction speech itself. Despite his stiffer tone, Stalin was very alert not to hit where ensue would really hurt the imperialists.

He did not draw the exhaust that the only hope weekend away saving humanity from a Tertiary World War lies in frantic for socialism on a imitation scale.

He did not subornment on the oppressed colonial peoples to rise against imperialist ruling. He did not call market leader the workers of Europe brand build a Socialist United States on that continent. He exact not call on the team, of the USA to take for granted against Wall Street’s domination.

By these glaring omissions in his talking, Stalin notified.

Anglo-American imperialism meander he is still available nearby prepared to step forward debate his right foot – cart a price.

 

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