The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-13

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character (Lenin's Words in spite Of
the fact that the existence Of these
socialist industries in the medium of
free trade" had undeniable effects
upon them. The congress issued a
warming against the attempts to con-
slider these industries as state capt.
talistic undertakings (thus making
them resemble the mixed or "conces-
sion" enterprises), and laid down in
structions for can extended education
al work for liquidating these devia-
tions from Leninism."
ON the main questionable "possi-
~ bility" of completing socialist con-
struction-the congress spoke in no
uncertain terms. The doubts" and
questions" as to this main point in
dieated the possibility for the develop
ment of serious deviations and there
fore the congress was quite firm and
clear in its statement:
ain the sphere of economic con-
struetion the party congress adopts
the feminist standpoint that the
Soviet land, as the country of the
proletarian dictatorship, possesses
everything necessary in order to
build up a complete socialist so
ciety.' The party congress consi-
ders the fight for the victory of So
ciaIist construction in the Soviet
Union to be the chief task of the
party. The period since the Thir-
teenth Party Congress completely
confirms the correctness of this
principle"
The Question of the Middle Peasantry.
THE fundamental question that fac
4 ed the congress, and the question
upon which there had been the deep
est and most extensive discussion, was
the peasant question-specifica the
question of the middle peasantry. 1t
is not necessary to emphasize the SUI
preme Importance of this question
not only for the Soviet Union for the
whole world since the very question
Of the colonial peoples is essentially
the peasant question reproduced on a
world scale.
The feminist Line Among the
Peasantry.
THE main lines of strategy in the
L peasant question-one of the mos
difficult facing the revolutionary pro-
letariat-are well-known and were
largely laid down by Lenin in the
famous agrarian theses of the second
congress of the Comintern lin 1920
on the basis, largely, Of the expert
ences of the party in all the phases
of its struggle. In countries where
there are bourgeois nationalist revolu-
tionary movements and where the
dominant system still has within it
tions Gas Russia before March, 1910,
the main line of strategy must be-:
Union of the proletariat and the whole
Of the peasantry under the hegemony
of the proletariat. In capitalist coun-
tries, however, where bourgeois rela-
tons have become entirely reaction
airy and where the feudal land rela-
tons have been largely eliminated,
the slogan is: The union of the pro-
letariat and the poor peasantry, the
naturalization of the middle peasantry
the struggle against the rich peasant
ry and the bourgeoisie. Such were
the tactics of the Russian proletariat
in the period of March to November
1917.
All this is of course elementary
There was no controversy as to this
The controversy arose on the ques-
tion as to the attitude towards the
peasantry, specifically towards the
middle peasantry, after the proletar-
ian revolution, under the proletarian
dictatorship, and in the period Of the
building up of socialism. The correct
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