The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

M IHtbbcC u IHC nuSoldH communist
Party on "The Immediate Tasks Of
the Economic Policy"
adopted by the Political Bureau
on December "a, 1923, in execution
of the decision taken by the PIE
nuns of the Central Committee
and the Central Control Committee
on October 25. This resolution has
to be submitted for final ccnirma-
ton by the Plenum Of the Central
Committee.
The Party, when solving the imme-
date questions of economic policy,
must take as basis the fundamental
task for the given historical period.
i. e., the realization of the alliance
between proletariat and peasantry,
the linking up of town and country,
and of the nationalized industry and
the peasant economy.
Only the correct solution of the
\ questions which arise in regard to the
relations between the working class
and the peasants, can permanently
strengthen the economic basis of the
dictatorship Of the proletariat and
preserve it from any kind of waver-
ing.
Twelfth Congress.
The Twelfth Congress of the
Party, in it's resolution on the organi-
cation of industry, has laid particular
stress upon the fact that the place
of development OF our state industry
meets with certain objective him
ORANGES, which are determined by tho
state of the peasant economy. and
that the exact adaptation Of the en-
tire economic policy to the level of
development of the peasant econ
omy forms the most important
task, an incorrect solution Of
which would unavoidably bring dis
astrous consequences, not only in the
economic, but also in the political
sphere. Only radical change in the
ture of the industrial countries Of
Europe, could perceptibly lessen the
immediate dependence Of the state in.
dustry upon the situation Of the
peasant economy and create the con-
ditions necessary for a quicker transit
ton to a regime of socialist economy.
The resolution of the Twelfth Con-
gress states:
Agriculture, altho with us it is
still on low technical level, has a
preponderating Importance for the
whole economics of the Soviet power.
-. Our Party must not for moment
forget, nor fail to lose sight of the
preponderating importance of the
peasants economy, when meditating
any action :. Not only the neglect,
but also the lack OF sufficient atten-
ton to this circumstance would be
fraught with innumerable dangers,
both in the economic and the purely
political sphere, as it would inevitably
undermine and weaken that alliance
between the proletariat and the peas
antry, that confidence Of the peas
antry in the proletariat which, with
the given historical transition period,
form the most principal supports Of
the dictatorship of the proIetariat,
and the maintenance and strength
ening of which alliance and conf
dence, form the fundamental condi-
ton for the stability Of the Soviet
power and, as a consequence, the
fundamental task of the Party"
Peasant Economy.
These systematic instructions of
the Party have, up to the present, not
been thoroly carried out in the prac-
tice of our economic organs. 1t was
far from being properly understood,
that the necessity for setting up the
most thoro interchange between town
and village formed the principal mo.
tive for the transition to the New
Economic Policy. and that under the
New Economic Policy the supplying
of the peasantry with the products of
the state industry forms the principal
economic task.
The present economic difficulties
(lack of market) are to consider
able extent to be attributed to the
insufficient heed given by the Party
20 these indications regarding the
role and the Significance of the peas
ants economy and the peculiarities,
resulting from tho task of realizing
the dictatorship Of the proletariat in
a country with a predominating peas
ant population. The task of the
Party, in the future must consist of
systematically ard carefully carrying
cut the above policy in regard to the
relations between town and village.
and not allowing itself TO be diverted
in an econor icallv and politically in
iii,ous name in the direction of an
under-estimation Of the significance Of
the peasant economy in the general
economic structure of the country.
Resulting from the lack OF co ordi
nation between the tempo of the re-
construction of the peasants economy
tt.o one hand aud fho olof,, fuI.,o