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Wage Cuts: "Capitalism's economic crisis involves wage reductions and increased pressure on the workers, which will strengthen the revolutionary movement and increase the influence and authority of the Komintern [also known as the Third International, headquartered at Moscow, which is striving to foment 'The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
Stalin and Revolution. Similarly the Dictator can take only a part-time interest in the Third International. This organization is defined in its official program as "The gravedigger of the Capitalist system." Its frankly avowed purpose is to foment in every land "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." It operates legally apart from the Soviet Government, actually with an interlocking directorate...
...British may "capitalize" the very grave political issues which divide Hindu and Moslem, in the sense that it is those among other things, which make the continuance of their power in India necessary and inevitable; but Dr. Bapat advances no evidence to show that they foment such controversy. Such a policy would defeat its own ends by uniting the hostile groups, and it would involve the danger of a religious war fatal to every British interest...
...Bogdanov succeeds in silencing Mr. Whalen, "ruble diplomacy" will have won its outstanding victory thus far, for the Commissioner charged last week nothing less than that Amtorg is a backer, political and financial, of organized Communist agitation in the U. S., that Amtorg in short is helping to foment "the World Revolutions of the World Proletariat." Earlier victories of "ruble diplomacy" include the arrangement whereby - although the Soviet Government is supposed to be too reprehensible to receive diplomatic recognition - the State Department issues permits under which Chairman Bogdanov and his scores of Red employes come and go without hindrance between...
...able to seize supreme power, Trotsky declares that, during Lenin's last and protracted illnesses, the present dictator organized a veritable camarilla of self-seekers who conspired secretly against Trotsky (Lenin's logical successor) and took advantage of the fact that Trotsky himself was often ill to foment against him an opposition so strong that when Lenin died Oppositionist Stalin was able gradually to oust Trotskyists from their posts and finally to seize the government...