The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
Rykov Speaks at RUSSIAN Parry Congress


zinoyiev's disbelief in the building
up of socialism thru the N. E. P.
comes from his idea that between the
N. E. P. and socialism there is still
further transitional period. 1t is also.
false to consider the economic struc-
ture as unalterable for the whole pc
Rod of the transition in the N. Z. p.
When industrial production was five
per cent of the pre-war level the eco
nomic system was quite different from
what it is today now that the pre-war
level has been almost reached. The
conception of the transitional period
assumes an alteration of economic ele-
ments, continuous process of tran
sitions from capitalism to socialism.
OOKOLNIKOV pointed out that one
~ could not call the Soviet state in
'dustry completely socialist because
there was still so much illiteracy, lack
of culture, housing needs, etc. But the
work of socialist reconstruction con-
sist exactly in the abolition of these
negative sides. The characteristics of
the present period of economic de-
velopmeht consist in the fact that the
most decisive factors of the socialist
reconstruction, l. e., the state indus
tries, are developing favorably, that
the correct way to the socialist re-
construction and the correct class re-
lations between the working class and
the working peasantry (the necessary
condition for a socialist reconstruc-
tion) has been found To the conten-
ton that it is not possible in the
technically backward Soviet Union to
build up socialism without a proletar-
ian revolution in the west, we reply
that if a correct policy is adopted,
this is absolutely possible. Whether
we can preserve the work of socialist
reconstruction from foreign interven-
ton, does not depend on us, but on
our surroundings.
pYKOv then quoted from Zinoviev's
~ pamphlet The Philosophy of the
Epoch" various places according to
which the idea which at present is
chiefly in the minds of the masses in
the Soviet Union, is the idea of
equality and according to which the
party must put itself at the head of
the struggle for equality.
In reply Rykov quoted Lenin's
words: AS long as there is a class
difference between the workers and
the peasants, we cannot speak of
equality, for if we did, we should
bring grist to the bourgeois mill.
Those who do not understand that
in the transitional period from capt.
talism to socialism there can be no
equality between the workers and
peasants and those who promise such
equality, are advancing the program
of Koltchak, even when they are not
aware of it,"
DROCEEDING to the internal party
= situation, Rykov referred to the
words of Kamenev that no digres-
sions of any sort from the line of
Leninism existed 4 the central COM
mittee but that, however a group of
young red professors had assembled
around Bucharin and was setting up
false theories. Rykov asked whether
even if this were true it were sufici-
ent reason to plunge the party into
the present fever of discussion and
oppose the central committee with a
co-speech. On the eve of the party
recognized the possibility of a unani-
congress Zinoviev declared that he
nous drafting of the resolution to the
political speech, and that all the
theses of Stain were acceptable but
that, however, no alterations must
take place in the present leadership of
the Leningrad party organization.
With this the differences of opinion
revolved themselves into the dispute
whether there should be one or two
centers in the party. We believe that
only one center can exist in the party