The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-29

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AE1 After Antipov had concluded, Sok-
olnikov, the peoples commissar for
finance spoke. He declared that there
were three basic questions % The
question of the socialist elements in
economy (2) The question as to the
alterations which have taken place In
the relations between town and coun-
try in consequence of the growing
differentiations; (S) the question of
the relations between the Soviet econ
omy and the external market.
The first question is the question OF
state capitalism and socialism. The
speaker then made polemic against
Bucharin and contended that for in
stance the railways with the transit
ton into the hands of the workers
state did not yet represent a social
lied, organized economy.
Similarly foreign commerce is car
ried on as a state capitalist undertake
ing. The money system is permeated
thru and thru with the principles of
capitalist economy and has simply the
purpose of organizing economy under
the dictatorship of the proletariat so
that the socialist elements can grow.
THE relations in the factories are
l. it is true socialist, but it is an
other question how far the really So
cialist character has been achieved.
Private capital has also its share in
the processes of reproduction. The
mistakes which were made in connec-
ton with the provision of cereals re-
suit from an overestimation of the
present possibilities of firm and
systematic leadership.
With regard to the second question
the speaker declared that in the fu-
ture the rich peasant would receive
ever new economic fields, the capt.
talist elements in the village would
grow. For this reason it is necessary
to concentrate our fire upon them. 1t
is necessary to turn the agricultural
taxes into weapon for the limitation
of the growth of the Kulaks.
With regard to the third question,
the speaker expressed himself as not
in agreement with the formulation of
Stain. Industry must, it is true, be
developed to maximum, but its prog
ress depends upon the export of ag-
ricultural products.
! A FTER Sokolnikov, Kamenev took
\ the floor He protested immedi-
ately against the demand that the
minority should maintain discipline,
because as far as the dispute was not
yet settled and the party congress
had made no decision, such demands
were identical with attempts to stifie
the discussion.
The minority had come forward
with decisions and demanded the sec
ond speech above all because it is
convinced that a new theoretical
school is growing upon the party and
incorrect principles of this school are
not rejected by the party with suffici-
ent energy.
The minority wishes to warn the
party of this tendency. The second
reason for the co-speech was the fact
that only in the course of the party
congress were the serious accusations
of liquidatory tendencies and defeat
ism put forward, accusations about
which the party knew nothing up to
the time of the party congress and
about which it had conducted no dis
cussion.
Kamenev pointed out that a great
open discussion should have been held
before the party congress to clear up
all the differences of opinion. inter
ruption: Then you would even have
lost the present minority!"O
Stain, in his speech said that the
struggle must be concentrated against
the depression which overestimated
the danger of the Kulaks, Bucharin
accused the minority of seeking to
withdraw the new economic policy, of
wishing to return to war Communism.
The October plenum of the central
committee declared in its resolution
that two digressions existed, % The
under-estimation of the negative sides
of the new economic policy; CD A
lack of understanding for the neces-
sity of the N. e. p. Kamenev decis-
lively rejected the accusation of lack
Of understanding of the necessity for
the N. e. p. and declared that after
five years carrying out of the N. E. p.
there was no member of the party
who did not recognize the Significance
and the unavoidability Of the N. e. p.
interruption: us not the under-esti-
nation of the middle peasantry a mis-
understanding of the N. Il. Pr
There exists only tendency in CON
tradiction to the correct party policy
which has formed itself in the party
and that is a tendency to idealize the
negative sides of the N. f. p, to con
ceal the difficulties arising from the
growth Of the capitalist elements, the
confusion Of the N. e. p. as a way to
socialism with socialism itself.
The attack must be concentrated