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Toward Soviet America - The Book The Communists Tried To DESTROY - By William Z Foster

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THERE is a great and growing mass demand in this
country to know just what is the Communist party
and its program. The masses of toilers, suffering
under the burdens of the crisis, are keenly discon-
tented and want to find a way out of their intoler-
able situation. They are alarmed at the depth,
length and general severity of the crisis. They be-
gin to realize that "there is something rotten in
Denmark," that there are fundamental flaws in the
capitalist system. Their growing realization of
this is further strengthened as they see the spec-
tacular rise of Socialism in the Soviet Union. The
masses are beginning rightly to sense that Commu-
nism has an important message for the human race,
and they want to know what it is.
Capitalism is deeply anxious that the masses do
not get this message. Hence, from the outset it
has carried on a campaign of falsification of the
Russian revolution entirely without parallel in his-
tory. There has been a veritable ocean of lies in the
capitalist press against the U.S.S.R. The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor leadership and the Social-
ist party, defenders of the capitalist system, have
outdone even the capitalists themselves in this
wholesale vilification. The effort of the capitalists
and their labor lieutenants has been to set off the
Communists as willful enemies and destroyers of
the human race. But the masses begin to see
through this misrepresentation and they want to
know the truth.
The present book is an attempt to meet this mass
demand by a plain statement of Communist policy,
avoiding technical complexities and theoretical
elaboration. It outlines simply the program,
strength, strategy and perspectives of the Com-
munist party of the United States. It undertakes
to point out what is the matter with capitalism and
what must be done about it. It indicates where
America is heading and it makes a practical appli-
cation of the lessons of the Russian revolution to
the situation in this country. Its central purpose
is to explain to the oppressed and exploited masses
of workers and poor farmers how, under the leader-
ship of the Communist party, they can best protect
themselves now, and in due season cut their way
out of the capitalist jungle to Socialism.