The Daily Worker

The Geneva Conference.

Just recently a conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland. This conference was called by the most powerful capitalist countries, for the purpose (we are told) of outlawing and abolishing wars. To this conference was invited the Soviet Union, the only workers' government in existence.

Now, the Communists thruout the world, and of course including the Soviet Union, have always maintained that wars under this present system of capitalism were inevitable and could not be abolished while exploitation and labor for wages continue to exist. However, the Soviet Union participated in this conference for two reasons. The first one was to prove its peaceful intentions to the rest of the world. and the second one was to prove the insincerity of the capitalist countries. This was accomplished by instructing Litvinoff, the Soviet Union's delegate. to introduce to the conference a plan for complete disarmament. This showed that the Soviet Union was willing to disarm if the capitalist countries were willing to do likewise.

By the manner in which they changed the discussion from disarmament to security, the capitalist delegates showed to the oppressed peoples thruout the world, that capitalism will never disarm, but only seeks to lull the workers, poor farmers, and oppressed colonials into believing that they are attempting to disarm. Real disarmament can only become a reality when thruout the world there will exist one, great, big, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.

Note: In this article, we state that wars under capitalism are inevitable. Can you tell us why?