Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

Everybody knows that state monopoly of foreign trade is abasic principle of socialism.Lenin said that the industrial proletariat “is absolutely notin a position to recover our industry and to make Russia anindustrial country without the protection of industry, whichin no way refers to its protection by customs policy, but solelyand exclusively refers to its protection by monopoly of foreigntrade.” 1Stalin said that “the monopoly of foreign trade is one of theunshakable foundations of the platform of the Soviet Government”and that the abolition of the monopoly of foreign tradewould mean “abandoning the industrialization of the country”,“flooding the U.S.S.R. with goods from capitalist countries”,and “transforming our country from an independent countryinto a semi-colonial one”. 2To abolish the state monopoly of foreign trade, as the Titoregime has done, is to throw the door wide open to imperialistmonopoly capital.What are the economic consequences of the fact that theTito clique receives large amounts of U.S. aid and keepsYugoslavia’s door wide open to imperialism?First, Yugoslavia has become a market for imperialistdumping.Huge quantities of industrial goods and farm produce fromthe imperialist countries have flooded the Yugoslav market.In pursuit of profits the Yugoslav comprador capitalists, whomake piles of money by serving foreign monopoly capital, keepon importing commodities even though they can be producedat home and even when stocks are huge. Politika admitted onJuly 25, 1961 that it “was everywhere evident” that Yugoslavindustry “was suffering blows from the continuous and verycomplicated competition of foreign industry”.1V. I. Lenin, “On the Monopoly of Foreign Trade”, Collected Works,Russ. ed., SPPL, Moscow, 1950, Vol. XXXIII, p. 420.2J. V. Stalin, “Interview with the First American Labour Delegation”,Works, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1954, Vol. X, pp. 115 and 116.164