The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30

(NOI E:-Ihe following is the
continuation of the speech delivered
by Comrade Stain at the Plenum of
the Moscow Committee and Moscow
Control Committee of the c. p. S. u,
held on October 10, 1928. The
article published under this title
early this week, through an error,
was not the continuation of Com
rade Stains speech, but state
lnent entitled, ''Fhe Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union to all Members of
the Moscow Organization" The fact
that the two documents were on the
same subject caused the error in the
printing shOp.)
AS you see, comrades, both these
dangers, the right and the left, dan
ger and both these deviations, to
the right and to the left, respec-
lively, though starting from differ
cnt points, lead to the same result.
Must Stress on Right Danger.
And if you ask me which of these
two dangers is the more serious, |
cannot but answer that they are
both equally so. From the stand
point of their successful combat
ing, the difference between these
two deviations consists in the fact
that the deviation to the left is more
tangible to the Party than is that
to the right. The circumstance that
we have already for some years past
been waging an energetic fight
against the left deviation, could ma
turally not be without influence on
the Party. Obviously the Party
must have learnt much in the long
struggle against the left (Trotsky-
ist) deviation, and that it is there
fore no easy matter now to employ
phrases such as the left wing was
fond of using. AS regards the right
danger, which also existed in former
times and which has now taken a
more tangible form in the shape of
an aggravation of the petty bour-
geois chaos in connection with the
grain provisioning crisis of last
year, it is, believe, not clearly
known to certain sections Of our
Party. Therefore it is our duty,
without of course diminishing our
vigilance in regard to the left (Trot-
skyist) danger by one jot, to lay the
most stress on the fight against the
right danger and to bring all efforts
to bear on making this danger as
apparent to the Party as the Trot-
skyist danger now is.
The question of the deviation to
the right would not be so vitality i'm
portant as it is, were it not con-
nected with the general difficulties
of our development. But the great
evil lies in the fact that these right
deviations increase the difficulties
Of our development and make them
more difficult to overcome. And it
is for this reason that we must con-
centrate on me problem of eliminat-
ing the danger in question.
Difficulties Cause Right Danger.
A word as to the character of our
difficulties. 1t must not be forgot
| ten that our difficulties are not diff
! ficulties of standstill or decline
/ When economy is at standstill OF
on the decline, difficulties likewise
occur; then all efforts must be di-
rected towards making the standstill
less disadvantageous or the decline
less pernicious. Our difficulties
however, are of quite a different
sort. The characteristic thing about
them is that they are difficulties
born of progress and advance. II
we speak of difficulties, it is mostly
question as to the PERCENTAGE in
crease in industry, the percentage
augmentation Of the area under cul
tivation or of the yield per hectare
And just because our difficulties are
such as arise in progress and moi
the outcome Of regress or stagna'
ton, the Party need not consider
them particularly serious. But diff
ficulties they are and remain.