e Continued from page 9
fully begun socialist industrial-
ization by way of the First Five-
Year Plan, socialism ‘already
accounted for almost 10% of
the world’s industrial produc-
tion.

Another 20 years later, in
1957, after socialism had evolv-
ed into a global system as a
result of the victory achieved by
the glorious Soviet Army in the
Second World War and the li-
beration of the peoples from
fascism, the socialist countries
accounted for 27% of the
world’s industrial production.

Production Boom

“And today approximately
40% — i.e. — two-fifths of all
products manufactured on our
planet already bear the stamp of
socialism. During the past year
alone industrial production in
the CMEA countries rose by no
less than 7.8%.

“The considerably higher rate
of development expressed by
these figures is indeed ample
proof of socialism’s historical
superiority over capitalism.”

The dynamic growth charac-
teristic of the socialist countries
is reflected in rising standards
and in stable ‘prices. Prices do
not rise in the socialist coun-
tries. They tend to go down-
wards. In 1971 prices dropped
from 10 to 50% on TV sets,
washing machines, motor bikes
and other items. Last year, when
the Soviet Union was faced
with a drought due to circum-

Sakharov’s

By V. SIMONOV

MOSCOW — A clairvoyant
in the world of the atom may be
a blind man in the world of peo-
ple. This simple idea is rejected
by those Western editors who
want to find in the physicist
Sakharov the talent of a noted
sociologist.

On Oct. 6, the West Berlin
Morgenpost phoned to Sakha-
rov at his Moscow flat and the
latter, also by telephone, gave
his views on the “nationalities
problem” in the USSR. Next mor-
ning Berliners could read Sak-
harovs furious reproaches. It
appears the “outside world has

-forgotten about oppressed na-

tionalities and ethnic minorities
in the USSR.” The world has
forgotten, and Sakharov alone
remembers that “millions” (!)
of these people allegedly dream
of leaving their country.

What is Sakharov’s stand on
the national question as a
whole?

Let us turn to a 160-page vol-
ume published by the New York
Times in 1962 as “Sakharov’s
Textbook.” Discussing the fate
of Blacks in the USA, the au-
thor presents his readers with
three “discoveries.” Discrimina-
tion against Black Americans is
not a class problem, but aa
“purely racial” one, because at
its embryo was the ‘egoism of
the whites. This is Sakharov’s
thesis No. 1. Secondly, accord-
ing te Sakharov, monopoly ca-
pitak is vitally “interested in
solving the racial problem.”
And finally, all those who come
out against racism, the author
warns, bear all responsibility
for any “complication of the
situation in the country.”

These ideas appear very
familiar. A closer look may re-
veal the_entire theoretical set of

stances over which it had no
control, prices on foodstuffs did
not rise. Not a single item of
food rose in price.

The reasons are obvious. Prices
are controlled by the govern-
ment. There are no monopoly
interests seeking maximum pro-
fits at the expense of the people.
Planning is for people and for
the development of the econo-
my. And. planning is possible
because of public ownership
under a government of the peo-
ple and for the people.

Contrast the stability and
continuous planned growth of
the socialist economy with the
growing crisis of imperialism,
the increasing instability of the
capitalist world, rising unem-
ployment and inflation, and with
it, a deterioration in living
standards.

More and more Canadians can
now see that slumps, unemploy-
ment, inflation and “crisis of
over-production” are the incur-
able diseases of capitalism, and
that only fundamental change;
socialist relations of production,
can overcome these sicknesses.

The contrast between the way
socialism deals with its natural
recources, including energy, and
the way capitalism does, is
equally revealing.

For the People

It is precisely socialism that
has utilized its natural res-
ources as a basis for building a
powerful industry and strength-
ening the independence of the

bankruptcy

ideologists who would like to
conceal the socio-economic roots
of racism and to whitewash the
crimes of monopolists who have
made racial oppression a depo-
sit to their bank accounts.

Sakharov needs his talk about
the “egoism of the whites” to
evade the terrible and to him
unacceptable, truth that racism
is part and parcel of the system
of capitalist exploitation, with
which he fell in love without
seeing it.

Therefore he quickly turns to
the “interest” of the state ma-
chinery of capitalism in solving
the racial problem. The myth
about “being interested” covers
up the deliberate and criminal
inactivity of the official protec-
tors of the racists. Lisbon is in-
terested in settling the problem
of Angola and Mozambique, and
London in restoring the civil
rights of Ulster Catholics, Sak-
harov might as well claim.

He is doing something simi-
lar when he perceives an “era
of renaissance and consolida-
tion” in the pools of blood on
the streets of Santiago. :

This “champion of national
equality in the USSR” morally
lynches victims of racism for
“complicating the situation” by
their struggle against the op-
pressors. Go hungry! Sakharov
recommends to the American
Indian. Bear humiliation! He re-
commends to an Asian holding
a British passport. But God for-
bid you, black-skin, to rise and
thus “complicate the situation.”

How intolerable it must be
for Sakharov to see the peoples
of the world stigmatizing colon-
ialism and racial discrimination.
How painful it is for him to

hear the voice of his ccuntry in
that .chorus.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1973—PAGE 10

‘took a policy of mass :
brutality and torture, incJUding

country. .Its vast energy ¥&
sources have been used as the
motor, the driving force for eleC-
trification, modernization and
building of the economy. Wher-
ever it has sold surpluses Of
either natural resources or ener-
gy, it has done so without 12
fringing on the socialist and
independent basis of the eC
nomy. Now too, when prospects
open up for trade between the
USSR and the USA, when de-
velopment of its vast energy *&
sources in Siberia are being cO-
sidered with capital being made
available from the USA and
Japan, the condition upon which
it is based will not in any WY
hinder the independence of the
country or its socialist develOP-
ment. Indeed, due to inter-imPe-
rialist contradictions, the cr#S!S
in energy and natural resourc€s,
capitalism may be compelled to
help in the development of the
productive forces of socialism
while in turn socialism maKes
available vital resources capital-
ism needs. This international
division of labor is in the int€r-
ests of peace and socialism.
How is the Canadian gové"™-
ment dealing with the enet8y
crisis, a crisis which could b@ve
been avoided where it not for
shortsighted capitalist policy
and the fight for a fast buck: It
places the burden on the cr!SIs
on the Canadian people through
rising prices. Now as a corse-
quence of the Middle East crSiS
it is preparing to issue ration
cards to the Canadian peoPle.
Rising prices and rationing, this
is its way to date of getting at
the energy crisis. What it has

,failed to do, indeed refused to

do, is establish a Canadian Pet-
roleum Corporation to handle
oil and gas and make it avVail-
able to all parts of the country
based on standard prices, What
it has so far failed to dO 1S
adopt a fully integrated ll-
Caradian energy policy, which
could be the basis for indePen-
dent economic development,
and the source for the building
of secondary industry, It . has
failed to do these things _be-
cause it listens to the
multi-national corporations Who
own and control this vitally. 1m-
portant resource. Indeed these
multi-national corporations Have
their men in the Parliament, in
the Government, in the Senate,
so-called honorable Canadians
who have been selling Canada
piece by piece over the Past
number of years.

‘The energy crisis is a reflec-
tion of the crisis of natura! re-
sources, of foreign take-OVErs,
of a whole set of policies which
lead to a strengthening of
control and domination ovet the
Canadian economy.

Learn from USSR

The Canadian government
can learn from the USSR im the
way it has and is develoOPing
its resources and energy. ~

The contrast stands out €4ual-
ly sharp between the groW!ng
crisis of bourgeois demoCtacy
on the one hand, and exPand-
ing socialist democracy of the
other. Chile has given US &
further example of how brutally
reaction tries to turn the Clock
back when its privileged POSi-
tions are challenged. It to¥® UP
a bourgeois-democratic cONsti-
tution, undermined demo€tatic
traditions and legality, uder-

terror,

book burning. Chile has d@™0n-
strated again that reactio™ Tre-
verts to fascism to maint@! its
power and its privilege.

“free fiow of ideas”

tergate has given us an-
his naples of reaction, _of
corruption and inner rot in high
ae examples, buttressed by
developments in Greece earlier,
shaw the tendency to reaction
Beenie democracy, and how
urgent it is to unite ©
democratic forces of the coun-
try to defend democratic rights
and extend them. —

If under bourgeois democracy,
where monopoly power prevails
there is the tendency towards
reaction and fascism, no such
problem exists under socialism-
There the tendency, and more
than.a tendency, is-the pea
ing growth and expansion o
socialist democracy. Indeed the
more the productive forces de-
velop the more democracy ex-

s and grows.
ag pe this in mind what can
oné say about the paige
launched in the mass media Oo
the capitalist world directed to
“defending human rights in the
USSR? One thing is clear. It

shows that imperialism has not

e reconciled to socialism
one: the Soviet Union. The
ideological Ee ns
ism has undertaken per es

orce concessions from the
ee Union and open the eee
to capitalist penetration and
capitalist ideas in -the socialis

sntries. :

aoe hadn’t been a Sakharov
and Solzhenitzyn the capitalist
press would have invented nee
They needed these outcasts O
socialist society to develop their
campaign of misrepresentation
and worse, all directed to undef-
mine the socialist system.

Real Freedoms

The Soviet Union takes sec-
lace to noone in
human rights and human
dignity. Where else, except un-
der socialism, is there guaran-
tees of the right to work, to
education, social security from
the cracle to the grave, free
medical aid, rest and leisure? po
these exist under capitalism? Po
they exist in Canada? What
does exist in Canada is unem-
ployment, exploitation, Poverty,
a denial of the national rights ©
the French Canadian people, the
democratic rights of the Ingian,
Metis and Innuit peoples, dis-
crimination against the foreign
born and newly-arrived immi8-
rants, racism, the extra exploita-
tion of young people and work-

' ing women.

Here we have a living exam-
ple of human rights and hyman
dignity a la capitalisme. ;

Of course there are regtric-
tions in the Soviet Union. For
example there is no freedom to
exploit, there is no right to own
the means of production or
banks. No one is permitteg to
spread the ideas of racism OF
promote national strife and pat-

advocate genoc

fascism in all countries of °

all the

defend- ©

red. No one is permitteg to

ide or aggresgj
sive |
war, ie

Those who initia
paign against the
either to compe]
across with some

Soviet Union,
Concessions,
pe to disrupt :

i not sue
Hitler could not exact “content

sions” from the USSR and there
Is no reason to believe the pre-
sent cold warriors wij], The pol-
icy of containment, of rollback. ~
a Jeet of strength ali
ailed. So will t .
pate: he present cam-
The Soviet Unj

the detente,

r oes on, t -
tional liberation hia es
Sra a ee: ; does the historic
ugg Ween sociali
capitalism. a
Just an additi

the S&S Onal footnote to

Campaign. Despite
Ty for freedom, lis.
he said two days
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ten to what
before Pablo
Sakharov sent

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It is in this w anges.
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be further strengtho al a

Peace, democr
ation and to
tion of man

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Temain ever
Constant symber” pein fresh, a
Point for the peoples
Where. The Soviet Union
hues as a beacg

kind. It stands
to stand in ¢
Struggle for
National
dence and SOcialism.
Paes aan its Séth birthaay, we
res ts ™ fraternal Breetings
o te People of the soviet
Union, its: government ‘wnd itl
party, which On the basis of
Creative | development one of a
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course for vic Arted a

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gle for peace a me Oe

ted the cam-: —