By Leon Trotsky
Quantity 11 of fourteen volumes masking the interval of Trotsky's exile from the Soviet Union in 1929 till his assassination at Stalin's orders in 1940.
Photos, chronology, notes, different writings of 1938-39, index. Now with enlarged type.
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55 Where it cannot do this, it slanders them. It lacks neither money nor paid collapse. of agents. Nevertheless, it is destined for a shameful Revolutionary ideas that correspond to the needs historical development will overcome every obstacle. The slanderers will break their head against the invincible truth. A FRESH LESSON56 After the Imperialist uPeace" at Munich October 10, 1938 Twenty years after the fIrst imperialist world war, which com pletely destroyed "democratic" illusions, the leaders of the Comin tern are trying to prove that the capitalist world has radically altered its nature; that imperialism is no longer the decisive factor on our planet; that world antagonisms are determined.
Every profound crisis -whether economic, political, or mili ta ry-has various its positive traditional side, values in that it puts to a test all the and formulas, laying bare the rottenness of those that served to mask "peacetime" contradic tions, and thereby spurring forward the general development. The diplomatic crisis over Czechoslovakia excellently performed this progressive task. It only remains for Marxists to draw all the necessary political conclusions from the recent experience. 52 53 A Fresh Lesson The Experience of the Last War Let us begin with a brief backward glance.
The "peaceful" English and French democracies rest on the suppressio n of national dem o cratic movements of hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa for the sake of the superprofits derived fro m them. Con versely, Hitler and Mussolini promise to become more "mo derate" if they obtain adequate colonial territory. The United States, owing to her almost total possession of an e ntire continEmt w ith inexhaustible natural wealth, and owing to favo rable historical conditions, h as extended her sway over the w o rld very "peacefully" and "democratically," if w e disregard such trifles as the extermination of the Indians, the robbery of the choicest portions of Mexico, the crushing of Spain, the participation in the l ast w ar, and so on.