Soviet Dumping
protects the home consumer nor does it protect the Russian
producer from exploitation.
But its enormous success is evident in the political sphere.
At home, by concentrating all the resources of the country
in the hands of a small group of dictators, the Soviets are
destroying every chance of successful opposition to their
regime. Abroad the monopoly hasbeen used very successfully
for the prevention of ‘ capitalist stabilisation.” Every
attempt at trade revival has been counteracted by the
Soviets by acts which were intended to prolong depression.
Thus the present intensified dumping campaign was
cleverly timed for a moment when both the British Empire
and the United States of America were making concentrated
efforts to revive trade from an unprecedented state of
depression.
Stalin is not only clever : he is well informed. He knows
that by throwing fairly large quantities of goods on to a
depressed market and offering these at any price, the depression
 is deepened immediately and efforts of recovery are
made much more difficult and complicated. Dumping
enables him at one stroke to reduce the meagre ration of the
Russian worker to starvation point and to play with and
manipulate the food and commodity markets of the world.
By the first he reduces a people to cowed submission ; by
the second he creates that condition of instability which he
hopes may lead to world revolution.

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