Toward soviet America

Prelinger Library, William Z. Foster

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• Nombre de lectures: 50
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 39 Mo

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OWAR& Z*WILLIAM FOSTERoftheFrom the collection n7 m o Prelinger v JJibrary CaliforniaSan Francisco, 2006AMERICATOWARD SOVIETTO ESTHERTOWARD SOVIET AMERICA vwwwwwvt William Z. Foster SPECIAL EDITION FEINTED FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BY COWARD-McCANN.lNC. NEW YORK DISTRIBUTORSLIBRARYWORKERS - Reoa 1318tb Street1413 Wett ILLINOISCHICAGO,- -COPYRIGHT 1932 BY INC.COWARD-McCANN, All ReservedRights PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OFAMERICAPREFACE THERE is a and mass demand in thisgreat growing to know what is the Communistcountry just party and its The masses of toilers,program. suffering under the burdens of the are discon-crisis, keenly tented and want to find a out of their intoler-way able situation. are alarmed at theThey depth, and the crisis. be-oflength general severity They to realize that "there is rotten ingin something that there are fundamental flaws in theDenmark," Their realization ofcapitalist system. growing this is further as see thestrengthened they spec- tacular rise of Socialism in the Soviet Union. The masses are to thatsense Commu-beginning rightly nism has an for the human race,messageimportant and want to know what it is.they is doanxious that the massesCapitalism deeply not this from the outset itHence,get message. has carried on a of falsification of thecampaign Russian revolution without in his-entirely parallel Therehas been a veritable ocean of liesinthetory. the U.S.S.R. The Ameri-capitalist press against can Federation of Labor and the Social-leadership ist defenders of the haveparty, system,capitalist outdone even the themselves in thiscapitalistsvi PREFACE wholesale vilification. The effort of the capitalists and their labor lieutenants has been to set off the Communists as willful enemies and ofdestroyers the human race. But the masses to seebegin this and want tothrough misrepresentation they know the truth. The book is an to meet this masspresent attempt demand a statement of Communistby plain policy, technical and theoreticalavoiding complexities elaboration. It outlines thesimply program, and of the Com-strength, strategy perspectives munist of the United States. It undertakesparty to out what is the matter with andpoint capitalism what must be done about it. It whereindicates America is and it makes aheading practical appli- cation of the lessons of the Russian revolution to the situation in this Its centralcountry. purpose is to to massesthe andexplain oppressed exploited under the leader-of workers and farmers how,poor can bestof the Communistship they protectparty, cut theirthemselves and in due seasonnow, way out of the to Socialism.capitalist jungle WM. Z. FOSTER New York City 19321,May