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HE death of Premier J. V.
Stalin is a momentous loss for
all Mankind.
Since Lenin, no other name in
€ world has meant so much to
_ “le working people, as the name
of Stalin. To the peoples of the
Oviet Union he was planner, in-
- SPirer and guide. He embodied
_ “Me vision of the bright’ new so-
_ ety that they were building and
© Personified the collective will
Which enabled them to accom-
Ish miracles. It was natural
that they uttered his name with
_ Warm affection.’
© class conscious workers all
°ver the world Stalin personified
realization of the age-old dream
_ advanced democratic thinkers,
_ 2amely, the establishment of a
Society in which there should be

NO exploitation of man by man.

talin was indeed the man of
“le epoch of /the new society—

Socialism, :

. The words uttered by Freder-
ik Engels at the graveside of
«-* apply with full force today.
“sn immeasurable loss has been

‘Sustained both by the militant

Toletariat of Europe and Am-
ye ee, and by historical science
_ i the death of this man.” —

of e incomparable friendship
ot Lenin and Stalin will always

‘nk their names most intimate-
© Win Stalin’s motto throughout
e ty life was “Lenin is our teach-
a and our guide.” He describ-
~~ €very one of his highest ach-

Lenin’s plans.

Historically, -however, Stalin’s
oe will henceforth be an es-
Nima part of the names Marx-

Ngels-Lenin-Stalin, of the foun-
“ers and architects of the science

oo Marxism-Leninism.

Toots of social relationships to
© conditions determined by the
D © of development of material
reduction. They showed that
cones in. social relationships
respond with changes in the
enakes of development of mater-

t at eduction. They showed also
voli the evolution of social and
. tical Institutions follows a
“ matey historical pattern, ulti-
Vatain €ly inseparable from the con-
Tah Ons of material production.
“fy showed that the most’ im-

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Stalin belo

ements as an implementation

Marx and Engels traced the .

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portant product of ‘capitalism is
the modern working class and
that while creating and organiz-
ing the modern working elass
“for itself,” capitalism trans-
forms itself from an economy
characterized by free competition

to an economy characterized by.

monopoly. she
Lenin showed that capitalism

had reached that stage of de-

velopment in the first decade of
this seantuny: He showed that
imperialism is the highest stage
to which capitalism can develop.

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He showed further that this de--

lopment is accompanied by
ieee in the forms and organ-
ization of production which
make necessary and eventually
must compel changes in property
relationship. Lenin showed that

_ “monopoly is the transition from

italism to a higher system.”
Bie ‘of the results of his dis-
coveries concerning the qualita-
tive changes brought about by
the rise of imperialism was Aah
the thesis favored by Marx ey
Engels, that socialism could ae
established only when the wor
‘ers of several advanced capital-
ist countries took over ae
power. simultaneously, had :
come outmoded. In 1916, he my
forward the thesis that in t 4
conditions of modern imperial-
ism, socialism could be built in

ountry.» ¢

read Heat workin class see
could be achieved by “breal ins
through” at “the weakest lin
of the imperialist system.

in carried forward to full
eee the theoretical con-
cepts of Lenin. He always Be
sisted on the primacy of ava :
theoretical contributions. Bu ‘3
did a great deal more Rng z
ry out Lenin’s plan, althoug
did that magnificently.
Stalin was Lenin’s
il. He was
ae dll intimate Riccar el
He was the ee oe ea ah ie
feritage. Stalin’s
metal fused in living harmony

the theory and prac

greatest

inism. He advanced Leninism to

t- new stage.
‘ The oneinal and fundamental

ions treasury
dditions made to the tre
of Marxist theory by Stalin are
immense. _Indee

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also: Lenin’s chief

ractise of Len-

Furthermore, he .

d, two of his

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books are masterpieces of orig-
inal contributions to Marxism in

the form of expositions of Len-.

in’s work. They are Founda-
tions of Leninism and Problems
_of Leninism.

There can be no grasp of Marx-
ism-Leninism today without Sta-
lin’s contributions. Furthermore,
those contributions include both
the elaboration of the theoreti-
eal problems of socialist con-
struction and the path of de-
velopment for the transition
from socialism to communism.

“Stalin was the embodiment of

the unity of theory and action.

*

The great October Revolution
was a decisive turning point, a
“watershed” in the history of
mankind. As_ secretary of the
party, Stalin shared with Lenin

all the tremendous tasks involv-

ed, guiding the advanced work-
ers through the great struggles
which culminated in the trans-
fer of power to the Soviets.

He shared with Lenin. in the
most intimate way the task of di-
recting the party and the young
Soviet state through the civil
-war. He was a member of the
military sub-committee of the
central committee, responsible

for direction of all military ac-

tivities of the Soviet government.

In addition to necessary, contin-
uous correction of Trotsky’s un-.

predictable swings from unjus-
tified optimism to proposals for
wholesale retreats, Stalin person-
ally took over field command in
crucial moments on riou:
fronts and transformed the mili-
tary situation from crisis to vic-
tory several times. The name of
the city®of Stalingrad is a re-
‘minder of the series of crucial
battles upon which the fate of

the workers’ and peasants’ re- —

public depended, and of victory

under Stalin’s personal leader-

ship. ana ate
Throughout Lenin’s long ill-
ness after the attempt to assas-

sinate- him, Stalin, secretary of

the party, carried the entire bur-

den of administrative and poli- |

tical leadership... All through
this period of time the line of
Lenin was carried through faith-
fully and creatively. When Lenin
returned to work he was able to

various ©

se

take up as though he had been
away for a few days.

In January 1924,  Stalin’s
speech on the death of Lenin
was in fact a solemn dedication
of himself and the party. “We
vow to you Comrade Lenin, that
we will fulfill your behest with
credit!” ‘ Stalin’s, whole life
thereafter was a fulfillment of
that pledge. :

As mentioned above, Lenin’s
analysis of imperialism led him
to formulate the thesis that so-
cialism could be established in
one country. In some of his lat-
est works, such as “On Coopera-
tion.” “The Tax in Kind,” “The
Great Initiative,” etc., he empha-
sized his thesis and indicated the
general path that would have to
be followed to implement it.

But the thesis was not fully
elaborated and accepted theoreti-
eally during Lenin’s lifetime.
Right-wing social, democrats, in-
cluding the outstanding leaders
of social democracy in Western
Europe rejected Lenin’s thesis.
They. pretended that their rejec-
tion was based upon Marxist or-
thodoxy. The fact of course was
that rejection was a useful screen
for their treacherous cooperation
with the imperialist governments
against both the Russian revolu-
.tion. and the working class of
their own countries.

Within the young Soviet Re-
public, yes, even in’ leading
circles of its Communist party,
there were influential men who
also flinched at the stupendous

task of building socialism in their _

vast land which, with the separa-
tion of Poland and the Baltic
provinces, was ‘stripped of ma-
jor industries.

Having no confidence in the
working class, fearful of the
peasantry and of the nations
which had been oppressed by

Tsarism, those men fought for a,

state policy based upon contin-
ued dependence of the new So-
(viet state upon the indu8trial
West. They fought for a state
policy under which the Soviet
state would remain a part of the
capitalist economic system. They
attempted to cover up their pro-

- posed betrayal by high-sounding

demagogy. .
Trotsky spoke and wrote in
high-sounding language about

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what he claimed to be “the im-
possibility of defying the law of
labor productivity.” With pre-
tentious claims to revolutionary
ardor, he proposed to postpone
any attempt at the construction
of large scale socialist industry
in the workers’ and peasants’ re-
public and instead, -to concen-

‘trate upon what he grandilo-

quently described as “carrying
the revolution to the West.”

It would be a serious mistake
to underestimate the public in-
fluence that the leading spokes-
men of the “Opposition” exert-
ed. Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev
and others were widely known.
Their leading positions in the
Communist International enabl-
ed them to publicize their views
widely. There was no suspicion
at that time that they were in
the pay of foreign’ governments.
That damning fact was discover-
ed only ten years afterward.

In the record of the great de- —
bate on this issue which raged
throughout the Soviet Union and
the world Communist movement
for six years before the first
“Five-Year Plan of great works”
was started, Stalin’s greatness
shines like the sun. He spoke
for the majority of the central _
committee of the Bolshevik par-
ty; their positions and p als
were endorsed by great All-Un-
ion Congresses of the party, of
the trade unions, of peasants
organizations and numerous _
others, but Stalin continued. to —

_ argue patiently with the opposi- —

tion, convinced fhat the essential _
outcome must be the conviction
of the Soviet people as a whole

and the world Communist move- __

ment.
‘In this great debate he demon-

strated brilliantly the depth of

his own oft-expressed conviction
that “people decide everything.”
Winning the active support of ©
the Soviet people as a whole —
through the great debate was
only the first step in the strug-
gle to build socialism. Lenin had
pointed out that the actual build-
ing of socialism would be a long,
difficult task. He had warned
the party that the task would

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