The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-26

EDITORS NOTE-In today's in
stalment Of the report of the four
teenth congress of the Russian Com
munist Party, we publish the sum
mary of the speech by Gregory Zinc
view, president of the Communist In
ternational, who led the opposition
against the partys political bureau.
Tomorrow there will be published
the speech of Nikolai Bucharin
against Zinoviev's position.
international Press Correspondence
moscow, U. S. S. R., Dec. I'll
A'A (By MaiD-Com. Gregory Zinov-
lev, president of the Communist In
ternational, made the second speech
upon the report of the central com
mittee of the Russian (Communist)
Party at the fourteenth congress here.
"The treatment of the existing diff
ference Of opinion before the party
as a whole is good and the time
chosen is absolutely correct. Without
doubt a solution will be found upon
the basis of which the party can con-
tinue its great work undisturbed."
Zinoviev summed up the situation
up to the time of the party congress
as follows: l. After almost five years
of the new economic policy, a wide
spread economic and cultural work of
reconstruction is commencing in the
Soviet Union; 2. These five years
prove the correctness of the way to
socialism thru the new economic pol
icy; 3. It is absolutely positive that
in the Soviet Union socialism is being
built up. 1t is only discussed whether
in a peasant country like the Soviet
Union the socialist order can be final
ly built up and maintained. We do
not doubt the possibility of socialist
reconstruction in the Soviet Union,
for the preliminary economic and pol
itical conditions are there, but the
final building up of socialism is only
possible on an international scale: 4.
1t is absolutely positive that socialism
is being and must be built up in close
alliance with the middle and small
peasantry; 5. The extremely great in
crease of political activity OF the
whole population of the Soviet Union,
above all of the working population,
is characteristic.
THE following difficulties exists:
l. 1. The delay of the world revolu-
ton and the partial sterilization of
capitalism, which constitutes a whole
period; 2. The building up of social
ism in a backward country with a
predominantly peasant population 3.
The creation of a collective party
leadership after the death of Lenin.
In this situation, vascillations and
mistakes on the part of individuals
amongst us are natural and the party
congress should not pass them over.
The present peaceful period brings
with it the dangers of a spirit of stabi-
lization and liquidation.
ZINOVIEV then dealt with the
- essence of the differences of opin-
ion and declared that in the dispute
over state capitalism, a tendency
showed itself to deny the existence of
any capitalism in the Soviet Union,
to idealize the new economic policy,
and to proclaim it as socialism.
daughter, interruption: Name those
who think that!")
The dispute is not concerned with
the formulation, but with the system,
with the policy, with the estimation
Of the economic structure of our coun-
try. 1t cannot be doubted that our
state industry represents, as Lenin
said, an industry of a logical social
istic nature. From this however, does
not follow that there is complete So