Foreighpolicy Essay, Research Paper

Increasing rivalry with the other imperialist powers and brutal exploitation of the economically weaker, more backward peoples — these two features characterize the foreign policy of United States imperialism at present. Wall Street’s dollars and marines are extending their domination over ever greater sections of the world. Wherever there is a revolutionary upheaval United States imperialism is on hand and ready to crush it. United States imperialism is in a conspiracy with Great Britain against the Russian revolution. It cooperates with Japan and England in the interventions against China. United States imperialism supported Great Britain in her infamous Nanking policies, and it now supports Japan in her ruthless intervention in Shantung. All talk about the United States as the “friend of China” is mere babble in view of the fact that America supports Japan’s domination over Manchuria in order to protect her own vast financial investments there. Japanese intervention in China today promotes the striving of the United States for financial hegemony in the Far East. American-British-Japanese cooperation in the dismemberment of China includes at the same time growing possibilities of a clash between the rival interests of these three leading imperialist powers on the Pacific. United States warships and thousands of marines are “pacifying” China, and Washington admits that Admiral Bristol is empowered to call out the whole Pacific fleet against China if United States imperialist policy requires it. The conquest of the tremendous Chinese market is in a growing degree one of the foremost aims of United States imperialism. United States imperialism goes hand in hand with Japanese imperialism in Shantung against the armies of Chiang Kai-Shek, but at the same time its representative, Admiral Bristol, cooperates with Chiang Kai-Shek in crushing Soviet Canton, suppressing all revolutionary movements of the Chinese workers and peasants. The military dictatorship of United States imperialism is exercised more ruthlessly than ever before over the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone and the Virgin Islands. Cuba, Haiti, Panama and Liberia are today reduced to vassal states of United States imperialism. The independence of all the Caribbean and Central American republics has become nothing more than a tragic farce in view of their increased bondage to Wall Street. The Havana Conference, which was called in the name of Pan-Americanism, was only the instrument of United States imperialism. The Monroe Doctrine, which once served as a defense against European powers, is today the most aggressive means to conquer all America for the United States. The pressure of Wall Street forced Mexico to surrender her oil and land resources to dollar imperialism. The appointment of Morrow, the employee of Morgan, as United States Ambassador to Mexico exposes the whole Latin-American policy of the United States as the policy of finance capital and big business. The fake “good will” flights of Colonel Lindbergh tried to exploit the sentimental illusions of the North American masses for the conquest of Latin America. Large parts of Central and South America have already been reduced to a state of semi-colonies of United States imperialism, and Wall Street and its White House agency are trying to transform them into true colonies. The most disgraceful action of United States imperialism is its robber war against Nicaragua. President Coolidge disclosed in his speech of the 10th of January, 1927, the true meaning of the Nicaraguan war: “If the revolution in Nicaragua continues, American investments and business interests will be in danger.” The infamous, bloody crusade against Nicaragua is as naked an imperialist profit-war as any ever conducted. United States imperialism cooperates with British imperialism against China, against Soviet Russia, against Nicaragua; but at the same time there is a

murderous competition and increasing imperialist rivalry between the two robber powers. There is hardly any part of the world in which there is no open or covert struggle between British and American imperialism. United States imperialism is breaking up the British Empire by catering to Canada and Australia. United States imperialism has successfully challenged Great Britain’s financial hegemony. There is a permanent rubber struggle and oil war going on between America and Great Britain. The fiasco of the Three-Power Naval Limitation Conference in Geneva and the American slogan for a “second to none” navy show the irreconcilable nature of this imperialist antagonism. The present cooperation of the United States Government with Japan in China has in it the germs of future conflicts on the Pacific. The recent “peace offensive” of Secretary of State Kellogg under the slogan to “outlaw war” is nothing but an imperialist maneuver to counteract the genuine struggles for peace of the Soviet Union. United States imperialism aims through the Kellogg treaty to diminish the power of the League of Nations, which is the organization of the European big powers, and tries to render futile any attempt of the European powers to build a bloc against United States imperialism. At the same time the Kellogg treaty tries to unite all the capitalist powers, not under the leadership of the League of Nations, but under the leadership of United States imperialism against the Soviet Union. Despite all empty talk about “outlawing” war, imperialist antagonisms are steadily growing, and there is increasing resistance against the aggressive imperialist policies of the United States. The growing competition with Europe, the organization of European trusts and cartels, the tariff issues with Germany, Great Britain and France, the questions of the war debts and the Dawes Plan, the domination over the Pacific, the growing revolt of the Latin-American countries — all these conflicts are pregnant with future imperialistic wars. The whole policy of United States imperialism is today a policy of preparedness for imperialist wars. The entire country is bristling with bayonets. The United States has never before had such a big army and navy. No other country in the world has spent as much for its navy as this country. In 1926-27 Japan spent $119,000,000, the British Empire $299,000,000 and the United States $334,000,000 for navy purposes. In 1928 the appropriation for the United States navy has already reached $363,000,000 and for the army $394,000,000, totaling $757,000,000. In his last message to Congress President Coolidge came out openly for the big navy program. On December 14, 1927, the big navy program was introduced in the House of Representatives, appropriating not less than $725,000,000. Federal government expenses for past and future wars amounted to 82 cents out of every dollar spent in 1927. It is estimated that in 1928 Congress will directly or indirectly vote about two billion dollars for military purposes on land and sea and in the air. United States imperialism is making the most elaborate preparations for war. The workers and working farmers must know that wars under capitalism are inevitable. “Small” wars are going on all the time, even today, and the next big imperialist world war is already looming up. The next world war will be even more devastating than the first one. The whole life of the entire country will be subordinated to war purposes. The whole population will be mobilized. The whole country will be turned into a huge munition factory. The phrase about “outlawing war,” the promise about preventing war by arbitration, and the babbling of the Socialist Party about democratizing the League of Nations of the European robber powers are only designed for one purpose — to distract the attention of the masses from the war danger, from the real revolutionary struggle against imperialistic wars. Disarmament is impossible under capitalism. Compulsory arbitration is a reactionary utopia and delusion. Only the proletarian revolution can be the way out from the present situation.