The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mai),
AVA Dec. 2S-The last speaker in the
debate upon the political and organ
national report of the central COM
mittee to the Fourteenth Congress of
the Russian Communist Party was
Comrade Ryhov. He pointed out that
there had not been, was not and could
not be any united political line
amongst the individual representa-
tives of the new opposition. Comrades
Kamenev, Zinoviev, Sokolnikov, Lash
evitch and Krupskaya who were now
together were only held together by
a desire to change the party leader
ship whilst in all important questions
they were of basically different and
mutually exclusive standpoints.
For instance, Sokolnikov supports
the opposition from the right, from
the standpoint that in consequence of
the existing dangers and the difficult
ties of the work of socialist recon
struction, further concessions must be
made.
Krupskaya pointed out that the slo-
gan Enrich Yourselves!" had conse-
quences as damaging as the tendency
to abolish the monopoly of foreign
commerce, as this was proposed by
no other person than Sokolnikov.
Rykov declared that the basic dis
pute concerned itself with the peasant
question and the dangers from the
village. At the present moment we
are experiencing a period of the revo-
luton in which the passive sympathy
or the neutrality of the peasantry to-
wards us is no longer sufficient.
TT is now question of building up
L socialism together with the peas
antry, of finding effective means Of
political and economic influence in the
village to tighten the work of socialist
reconstruction. For this reason, the
question of the relationship to tie
middle peasantry which was raised in
all clarity by Lenin as early as the
Eighth Party Congress, is of such
great importance.
The necessity of a continued sup
port for the poor peasants and the
land workers who are our chief sup
ports in the struggle for the winning
of the middle peasantry, is self-under.
stood. The negative sides of the New
Economic Policie which some people
are in the habit of stressing especial
ly, will exist for the whole period up
to the building up of the whole of So
ciety upon socialist basis.
But our task will not be to cry thru
all the years of the transitional Pc
riod: The negative sides of the N. E.
P. must be fought, but they must be
fought by examining each time what
new tasks have been presented to us
thru new alterations in the economic
situation and in the relations of the
classes.
TN contradistinction to the past Pc
4 RODS, today we have the task of
creating really firm alliance of the
working class with the middle peas
antry for the mutual building up of
socialism thru the co-operatives, thru
the industrialization of agriculture,
etc. The real danger of the Kulaks
does not at thesmoment consist in an
immediate danger of a bourgeois res
toration, but in the fact that the Kul-
axis attempt to draw the middle peas
antry with them and thus the strug-
gle against the Kulaks is a struggle
for winning the middle peasantry.
The winning of the middle peasantry
would be exactly identical with de-
feating the Kulaks.
We must isolate the Kulaks and
gradually draw the middle peasantry
into the work of socialist reconstruc-
ton. For this reason Stain was right
when he especially stressed the strug-
gle against the digressions which un-
derestimate the middle peasantry.
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