[The following was part of a long reply to a Trotskyist criticizing the Communist Party of France for a failed strike, which of course, as usual, the Trotskyists did not lead any better. These Trotskyists said that the Swedish, U.$. and English trade unions were the model to weld the working-class together, not the Communist Party of France, which had recently received 5 million votes.]
"Has anyone established that the prosperity of the 'advanced' countries is not based on the misery of the others? Are these paradises the image of what we will become, or the beneficiaries of the present inequality? You want to make me accept quietly the first hypothesis, but you don't prove it; were it true, besides, there would be no occasion for rejoicing: if the American trade unions had taken cognizance of their political duties, they would try to check the race towards wars instead of sending spies and propagandists to the French. If history is one day to give to the American Government the title of 'war criminal' . . . it is to be feared that the American workers, as the German proletariat--duped or crushed--was the accomplice of the emperor in 1914, and of the Nazis in 1939. "But may I remind you--one courtesy deserves another--that all humanity lives in a state of undernourishment? If it were--by chance--necessary that the workers of India or Europe die mouth open in order that American business maintain its high payroll, the truth of our present situation would not be the Ford or Kaiser factories but the starvation which ravages the world. And in this case the truth of praxis is not the well-behaved reformism of workers well-nourished, but made brutes by exhausting work and by constant propaganda: it would be revolutionary activity."