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

Congress or the COMMUNIST Fdrty VI
Russia can and must be traced to
the economic political situation inter
nationally and within the Soviet I'm
ion in the last period Of time.
What are the main features of the
present period on an international
scale? A certain sterilization of CAPT
talism-relative and very partial it is
true, but sterilization nevertheless.
That this sterilization is limited to a
degree that it is the source of many
new contradictions which, together
with the old contradictions reproduced
on broader scale, threaten the exist
ence of capitalism itself cannot, OF
course, be denied. But it is equally
undeniable that with the October,
1928, defeat Of the German proletariat,
with the Dawes plan, with the secur-
ity pacts and LocarnO, the period of
immediate revolutionary situations in
Europe has passed for time. The
situation remains of a general revolu-
tionary nature, but it is no longer,
for the next short period of time, preg-
nant with situations that can imme-
diately lead to the outbreak of the
world revolution on another front.
The Question of the World Revolution.
WHAT naturally would be the re-
W Election of such a situation with
in the Soviet Union? First of all,
the question of the world revolution
and it's relation to the activities of
the Soviet Union would naturally
arise. Can our perspective, after all,
take in the world revolution? Should
we, in this sterilization period, base
our work within the Soviet Union up
on development of the world revolu-
ton, or shall we resign ourselves to
the fact that the world revolution is
indefinitely" postponed and leave it
out of our aims and calculations? Any
such views the Fourteenth Congress
of the party liquidated unanimously.
The congress as a whole outlined the
truly feminist view of the role of the
Soviet Union in the world revolution
is the very basis of our international
perspective and that it is the task and
duty of the first proletarian state to
serve as basis of operations and
y source of support for the world prole-
tariat in it's struggle and revolution.
The political resolution of the central
committee accepted by the congress
was very positive on this point.
The Question Of Building Socialism.
TINE next question was a reflection
4 of the same general perspective up
on the economic situation within the
Soviet Union. 1t was a question of
building socialism" OF course, there
was no disagreement over the fact
that socialism could and must be built
in the Soviet Union; the question was
not whether socialism could be built
in a country like the Soviet Union
without the world revolution; it was
whether socialism can be finally built,
can be completed and purely So
cialist system constructed in the Sow
let Union before and without the pro-
letarian revolution on a world scale.
To this the Leningrad delegation and
some others under the leadership of
zinoviev answered in the negative
while the rest of the party congress,
the overwhelming majority, were Of
the opposite opinion.
The NEP and Socialist Industry
CLOSELY bound up with this fun
" damental question Of the POSSIBLE
ity of the completion of socialist con-
struction were some other very i'm
portant questions, among them the
questions of the estimation of the
new economic policy, the ques-
ton as to the socialist character
OF the nationalized state industry, and
so on. The resolution of the party
congress entirely cleared the atmo-
sphere on these matters. It rejected