William Z. Foster

Toward Soviet America

Date: 1932

Publisher: International Publishers Publishers

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Preface

I. THE DECLINE OF CAPITALISM

1. The Present Economic Crisis

2. The Mass Impoverishment of the Toilers

3. Capitalist Fear and Confusion

4. Cyclical Crises

5. The General Crisis of Capitalism

6. The Decaying Capitalist System

7. The War Danger

8. The World-Wide Revolutionary Upsurge

9. The Revolutionary Perspective

II. THE RISE OF SOCIALISM

1. Flourishing Bolshevik Industries

2. The Revolution in Agriculture

3. Outstripping the Capitalist Countries

4. Real Prosperity for the Toilers

5. The Cultural Revolution

6. Accomplishing the Impossible

7. Socialism and Communism

8. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

9. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union

III. CAPITALIST ATTEMPTS TO LIQUIDATE THE CRISIS

1. Quack Capitalist Economic Remedies

2. The Rationalization of Industry

3. The American “New Capitalism”

4. Trusts and Cartels

5. The Movement for Capitalist Planned Economy

6. The Question of an Organized Capitalism

1. Futile Efforts to Quench the Class Struggle

2. From Social Reformism to Social Fascism

3. The Fasciszation of the American Federation of Labor

4. The Fasciszation of the Socialist Party

5. The “Left” Social Fascists

6. The Bankruptcy of Social Fascism

7. The Futility of Fascism

IV. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS

1. The Conquest of Political Power

2. The Revolutionary Forces in the United States

3. The Communist Party; the Party of the Toilers

4. The Present-Day Tasks of the American Revolutionary Movement

5. The Communist Party Program of Immediate Demands

6. A Program of Class Struggle

7. The American Workers and the Revolution

V. THE UNITED SOVIET STATES OF AMERICA

1. The American Soviet Government

2. The Expropriation of the Expropriators

3. The Improvement of the Toilers’ Conditions

4. The Liquidation of Capitalist Robbery and Waste

5. The Reorganization of Industry

6. The Collectivization of Agriculture

7. The Liberation of the Negro

8. The Emancipation of Woman

9. Unshackling the Youth

10. The Cultural Revolution in the United States

11. Curing Crime and Criminals

12. The Abolition of War

13. Socialist Incentive

14. Collectivism and Individualism

15. Building a New World