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new products to new markets ; she is not desirous of reducing
the average umit cost of production by large export sales ;
she is not normally making a net profit on her dumped goods,
andsheis neither driving nor is she being driven by competition.
There must therefore be some extraordinary motive behind
the present flood of Soviet dumped goods. Economic
factors do not explain the phenomenon. The reason must
be sought in the political sphere and will be found in the
fundamental tenets of Soviet policy.
As is well known, the first and foremost point that is
emphasised in and out of season by every document and
every spokesman in Soviet Russia is * World Revolution.”
This is the goal to which every effort and every thought of
the leaders of the Soviet State is directed. The programme
of the Communist International, drafted by the present
rulers of Russia, makes it quite clear that in the struggle
for world revolution Russia is *“ the first link in the chain.”
The Soviet Union, we are told quite frankly, “ drives a
wedge into the capitalist system ** and it can do this because
it controls “ all the means and auxiliaries of State power.”
World Revolution, according to Soviet leaders, will be
brought about by creating first of all “revolutionary
situations.” And one of the means of creating this condition
 is the disorganisation of the economic order. Bukharin
 is the acknowledged expert on this subject and the
principles laid down by him are strictly adhered to. His
now famous report to the Congress of the Communist
International emphasises the need for manipulating
“ market relations.” His point is that economic chaos can
be produced by a “ competitive struggle,” and he makes this
clear by explaining that: “ That prosaic thing, market
competition, is nothing but a new and specialised form of
class struggle.” One of the objects of “ market competition
 ” is apparently to “ strike a heavy blow at capitalist
stabilisation,” but, as far as it can be understood, this object
is only one of many.
In order, therefore, to prepare for and to instigate
World Revolution through the so-called economic channel,
Soviet Russia is striving to acquire prestige as a producer