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sore than the emount of foreign investments ever held by any imperialist . And the Soviets have grasped every economic means to exploit territories under complete or partial control, ee ee " fa) They equally denounce our political imperialism. cn aa ‘st - Bat it in we who aid others, not to become ‘Yankee stooges” but coe to get on their feet and be themselves, and it is they who can tolerate no ae a Ste. ati _ independent power whatever except for the time being aid pending me o[6|: “inevitable fe) They call us ‘war mongers.’” Bat it is we who have believed that there need not be another war, and we who are disillusioned at the proapect of preventing one, now that the difficulties are apparent. And it is they who lay down as fundamental doctrine that there must be a final ghastly struggle. -: (p) They eccuse the capitalist world of resorting to terrorism _ eguinst the challenge of revolution. . The roots of Commonist terror may originate in Communism or in Rusian t brutality. Russia never went t through the historical develop- - ment of humanitarianism that has reduced brutality in western countries. . Bat this question need not be settled here. The modern classic on terror- iam in Trotsky 's Defense of Terrorism, He was a Bolshevik in good stand- ing when he wrote it, and for years afterward. How much the Hitler terror owed to lessons from the Communists is a story not yet told, . though many scraps of evidence have been published. (gq) They regord us as “‘hard to get along with,”’ and atiribute fhis naturally to our capitalist-imperialist designs. : An opinion on the subiect has heen ernrensed by a sonree with which few will choose to differ. Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt, in her eolumn in the Wash- ington Daily News for January 3, 1948, said : I do not think we have always been wise or tactfal in cur approach to the Gov-- crameat of the U.8.8.R. bot besically we have been the ones to make the constructive . offers and they have been the ones to refuse. (r) Their general charges egainst any ides of reform in our system, are variations on the old charge that all such hopes offer the workers ‘‘pre in the sky. ” .. But if conditions for labor in the United States today are “‘pie in the sky” or if recovery in other countries by immediate American aid is 50 described, what figure of speech can be devised to cover the withering away of the state only after a world proletarian dictatorship, which will ‘ pot begin until after one more great holocaust of war, which may itself _ not oceur until after three or four more 5-year plans have armed the Soviet, as prescribed by Stalin ¥ Such a catalog of Communist charges and answers may not be con- _ " dusive on each single point, but its general weight suggests a sharp dis- - Sepaney between the Communist mythology and the facts. A direct approach to the questions that this raises may be made an examination of Stalin's list of the three great * contradic. me These contradictions are the one between the capitalist class and the ' fone* af ax sepitaliaom qnoted shove on Page 2 4 \pisaesoes, ' I t 4 . are hope or successful working clam within a capitalist conntry, the one between the competing ; . ~ ee ee ee