The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-26
Secretary of Soviet Communist Party Speaks
Before Moscow Plenum on Right Errors

try, without agricultural machines,
without tractors, without fertilizers,
in the same way industry cannot de-
velop to the necessary extent with
out an increased rate of development
of agriculture, which supplies in
dustry with raw materials and food
stuffs. The rate of development of
agriculture, however, lags behind
the growth of industry and can
hardly meet the growing require
ments of the country. Agriculture
does not furnish sufficient amount
of raw materials, of goods for con-
sumption and export. This does
not mean that with us agriculture is
declining or that it is passing over
to natural economy, for agriculture,
including the grain cultivation, is
growing and developing from year
to year and increasing it's output.
But it means that the present rate
of the growth of agriculture is no
longer sufficient for us.
Hence the gradual transformation
of agriculture on the basis of the
new technique, the mass, production
of the collectivist peasant under
takings and, consequently, the in
creasing rate of development of our
agriculture is a chief task of Soviet
economy.
Of course, the great difficulties
lying in this path arouse vacillations
in the weakest sections of our
Party. These vacillatiors find ex-
preston in the underestimation of
the role of the Soviet and collective
undertakings and in the efforts to
revise the decisions of the XIV. Party
Congress on the reinforced attack
upon the kulak elements in the vii
lage. These vacillations show the
failure to understand that without
the transformation of agriculture on
the basis of the new technique, with
out the cooperative and collective
peasant economy, a powerful adj
vance of the productive forces of the
village is impossible, the million
masses of the peasants cannot be
freed from poverty and the victory
of the socialist elements of economy
over the capitalist elements cannot
be ensured.
Difficulties Cause Deviations.
These difficulties, which are
closely connected with the solution OF
the fundamental tasks of the recon
struction period in the sphere of in
dustry and agriculture, are increas-
ing with the accentuation of the
struggle of the imperialist states
against the first proletarian state
This is shown in the new attempts OF
the international bourgeoisie to dis
turb the socialist construction with
all means-by preparation of an eco
nomic blockade and an attack upor
the Soviet Union, by bribing the
commanding staff of industry
(Shakhty affair, etc.
All these difficulties, as well as
the development of socialist con
struction at the present period, slim
ulate the activity and the struggle Of
the capitalist elements of the country
(Nep people, kulaks, bourgeois in
telligentsia) against the policy of the
proletarian state. At the present
stage of socialist construction, which
finally leads to the humiliation Of
the classes, there is proceeding 'ar
intensification of the class struggle
which is particularly noticeable il
the village. The PARTY, in its policy
is proceeding and must proceed from
, the fact that the class struggle il
the village is becoming accentuatet
and found special expression las
year in the serious resistance of thu
kulak elements to the economy of tn,
proletarian state during the grsil
provision campaign.
Fail to See Village Glasses.
: Under the inevitable pressure o
the bourgeois elements, which
{ are still great force in our country
/ some sections of our Party organiza
tions lost the clear Party directive
Already in its letter of Februar.
18th the Central Committee re
, marked that:
, "in our organizations, both IN the
, Party as in others, certain ele-
ments have recently arisen which
are alien to the Party, which do
! not see the classes in the village,
{ do not understand the reason of
our class policy and wish to con-
duct the work in such manner
that nobody in the village is Of
Tended, which wish to live in peace
, with the kulak and in general
wish to maintain popularity