The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-24
Stain Answers Opposition
VII. Results of Party Policy.

VII. Results of Party Policy.
NOW let US turn to the question of
~ our Party policy during the last
few years.
Comrades Zinoviev and Trotsky
have stated that our policy is IN
sound.
Let US then examine the facts on
the four main problems of our policy,
referring to such decisive questions
as the peasantry, the re-equipment of
industry, of peace, and finally the
growth of Communist elements thru
out the whole world.
What was the situation in respect
of the peasantry two or three years
ago?
You know that it was very serious.
There were cases of presidents of
rural executive committees and rural
workers in general being killed, and
the threatened assassination of vii
lage correspondents.
In some outlying districts there
were even bandit raids, while in a
country like Georgia there was a ris-
ing.
Naturally, in such circumstances
the "kulaks" erich peasants) gathered
strength, the middle peasants rallied
to the "kulaks" while the poor peas
ants became disintegrated. The posi-
ton of the country was seriously af-
fected by the fact that the productive
forces of the countryside were grow
ing at an extremely slow rate, part
of the land was not being titled at all,
while the amount of land under seed
was only about rs per cent of the
pre-War area.
Such was the position prior to the
XIV Party Conference.
Concessions to Peasants.
At the XIV Conference the Party
made manoeuvre, in the form Of
certain concessions to the middle
peasantry and, calculated to accel-
crate agricultural production, to es-
tablish a form of alliance with the
middle peasantry and to further the
isolation of the wealthy peasants.
At the XIV Congress the OPPOSE
ton, headed by Zinoviev and Ka-
maneff, tried to scotch this man
oeuvre of the Party, and proposed to
replace it in the essense by policy
of attacking the rich peasants and
resuscitating the Committees of the
village poor" This practically
amounted to reviving civil war in the
countryside.
The Party rejected the Opposition
attack by confirming the decisions of
the XIV Party Conference, approving
the policy of increased activity of the
village Soviets, and issuing the slogan
of industrialization as the main task
of Socialist construction. The Party
made firm stand for the policy of a
sound alliance with the middle peas
antry and the isolation of the rich
peasants.
At the present time the area under
seed has practically been brought up
to the pre-war level COS per cent?, we
have an alliance with the middle
peasants, the poor peasants are more
or less organized, the village Soviets
strengthened, while the authority of
the working class and its party in the
countryside in general has increased.
We have thus created conditions
that make it possible to proceed with
the offensive against capitalist ele-
ments in the countryside and to as
sure the further successful construc-
ton of socialism in our country.
The policy of our Party on the
fundamental question of the inter-
relations between the working class
and the peasantry has thus proved
correct.
Rehabilitation of Industry.
Now on the question of industry.
History has shown that no young
State in the world has been able to
build up an industry, especially heavy
industry, without help sfrom the out
side. without foreignvh without
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