That would be foolish and reactionary. No, that cannot be said, unfortunately. One of the greatest merits of our Party's political strategy is that it is able at any given moment to pick out the main link in the movement, by grasping which the Party draws the whole chain towards one common goal in order to achieve the solution of the problem. No, it is not that. No, it is not that.
Communes are still of isolated occurrence in the collective farm movement.
The artel is the main link of the collective-farm movement because it is the form best adapted for solving the grain problem. That is why the agricultural artel is the main link in the system of the collective-farm movement at the present moment. No, it cannot, unfortunately. We know that in a number of areas of the U.S.S.R., where the struggle for the existence of the collective farms is still far from over, and where artels are not yet consolidated, attempts are being made to skip the artel framework and to leap straight away into the agricultural commune. The art of leadership is a serious matter.