AIMS OF THE SOVIET

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1930, Page 11

AIMS OF THE SOVIET

GLASS POSITION DEFENDED. COMMUNISTS AND CAPITALISTS. Comrade Rudzutak, one of the three chief men of the' all-powerful Political Bureau in Russia, made a remarkable survey of the Bolsheviks’ world position at the opening of the Ukranian Party’s conference in Moscow recently. It was denied by Comrade Rudzutak that Soviet wages were falling. “It is false to say that the Russian worker to-day is pdcztr than before the revolution,” he said. “A grand improvement will follow our temporary difficulties.” He denied that the Soviet would be faced with “still greater and unheard of difficulties” in trying to feed the industrial workers. “We cannot go back on our machinery programme, but we hope soon to build all our own machines without the foreigner. Meanwhile, the bad quality of the work grows like a snowball, however.” Turning to crises abroad, M. Rudzutak declared that revolution was growing everywhere. Owing to general destitution strikes would rapidly produce political collisions, “so the world bourgeoisie prepares for the coming of class battles. The very day the Great War ended they began to prepare for a new war, but there is a new factor in politics since 1914; a proletarian dictatorship rules one-sixth of the earth’s surface.

“We are a frightfully painful eyesore for the capitalists, and the Soviet Union’s destruction would be the best way out of their desperate position, because it would shake the very foundations of the revolutionary movements now developing in the capitalist States and their colonies. It is quite clear that the war between the Soviet Union and the capitalist world is going to be a war to t> death.

“We shall not start it, but we solemnly state here and now that we are ready for war, and, although we are most peaceful, we are going to defend our class position ' to the last drop of our blood, and our forces are quite adequate to counter-attack victoriously all who touch our independence. “Di Comintern the Bolshevik Party applies the same principle as in Soviet Russia: We say whatever political and social conditions may be abroad, there shall be no agreement made with social traitors, i.e., foreign Socialist parties, including British Labour. We shall win only by holding our pure revolutionary line. Only by standing firm on Lenin’s Red Testament can the world’s Communist parties, united by Comintern, triumphantly lead the world’s proletariat into the coming class battles. “If we should defile our Comintern and our foreign Communist parties by having truck with such bourgeois muck as I rotsky or the Moderates, we could not expose the bankruptcy of the Social Democrats. Only by absolute cleavage from them on all things can we create in the Communist Party’s living body a great G.11.Q. for the future class war.”