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2nd. It unequivocally condemns the "Red Hunt," termed by him a typical Hitlerite method of preparation for Fascism, and war: "Those who today shout: Communism! are not really afraid of Communism, What they fear is democracy." It particularly places on guard the trade union members against the anti-Communist hysteria destined to break the labor movement. 3rd. It insists upon the necessity for defending step by step civil rights and freédoms, and it presents the elements of a program the application of which would satisfy the immediate economic demands of the working masses: wage increases, price reduction, a minimum wage; cld age-pensions, etc.- Nevertheless, with regard to three important questions, WALLACE advances viewpoints which can only impede the development of the struggle for peace. ‘hus, he repeats on his own behalf the myth about "Soviet expansionism," and makes the USSR just as responsible as the United States for world tension, without ever offering proof of his statements. Furthermore, he does not justify his acceptance of the current libels concerning Soviet pressure against neighboring states, or Communist infiltration directed by Russia. Such concepts dangerously obscure the fact that the threat to peace comes from only one side, that of American imperialism aiming at world conquest. WALLACE evidently is not a Socialist. His book clearly shows that he is the champion of the capitalist system; his program aims at saving and perpetuating this stystem in the United States and elsewhere. He believes that there may be many kinds of capitalisms: a reactionary capitalism, and a democratic progressive capitalism, and that the latter may eliminate poverty, unemployment, economic crises, Fascism, and war. He prepares an outline for the prevention of economic crises, based upon the theories of KEYNES, who pretended that these crises were not the consequence of the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist regime, but only of its reactionary orientation. We do not wish to discuss here the utopias developed by WALLACE, and establish the fact that what he calls “reactionary capitalism" is, in reality, merely the capitalism of our time. Neither is it up to us to expose the error which he committed by opposing Soviet economic democracy to th: "absence of political democracy" in the USSR. We cannot demand of WALLACE that he shall be a Marxist, and know the scientific theory of the State. This is not what is important. In a large popular party, including groups and individuals of all opinions, there exist differences on a great number of questions. “ith the development of the Third Party is it necessary to discuss them in a fraternal and constructive manner. “hat is important