The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-24
Secretary of Soviet Communist Party Speaks
Before Moscow Plenum on Right Errors

the Communists, to depart, from the
principles of our Party in the direc-
ton of bourgeois theology. If GER
tain circles among the Communists
desire to keep the Party back from
realizing the resolutions of the XIV
Party Congress, by denying the nee
essity of an assault on the kulak ele-
ments in the rural districts, or else
demand an arrest of our industrial
development because they consider
the present rate of advance fatal to
the country, or if again they con-
slider the government subsidies for
Soviet farms and collective farms to
be impracticable and are of opinion
that the money in question is being
wasted in this way, or if they deny
the advisability of fight against
bureaucracy on the basis of self
criticism, affirming that self-criti-
cism is liable to undermine our ap-
paratus, or if they demand the loos-
ening of our foreign-trade monopoly
and so on, this means that in the
ranks of our Party there are such
as are anxious, perhaps without
knowing it themselves, to adapt the
cause of our Socialist construction
to the tastes and requirements of the
Soviet bourgeoisie. A victory of the
Right deviations within our Party
would entail an enormous consolida-
ton of the capitalist elements in our
country. And what would such con-
solidation mean? 1t would mean a
weakening of the proletarian dicta-
torship and strengthening of the
chances of restoration of capital
ism. Consequently a victory of the
Right deviations in our Party would
lead to the development of condi-
tons which are requisite for the re-
storation of capitalism in this coun-
try.
Bases for Restoring Capitalism.
Are there conditions in this coun-
try which might render possible the
re-establishment of capitalism
There decidedly are. This may seem
strange, but l can assure you, COM
rades, that it is fact. We have
overthrow capitalism. We have set
up the dictatorship of the proletar-
lat, and we are rapidly developing
our Socialist industry and connect
ing it with peasant economy. But
we have not yet extirpated the roots
Of capitalism. Where are these
roots to be found? They are to be
found in the production of goods,
in the small production of the towns
and in particular in small peasant
economy. The power of capitalism
lies, as Lenin points out:
"in the strength of small produc-.
ton, for such small production
has unfortunately continued to ex-
list on very large scale and daily
and hourly to create the elements
of capitalism and bourgeoisie."
1t is obvious that inasmuch as
small production is mass-phenom-
enon in this country and is even pre-
dominant, and inasmuch as it pro-
duces capitalism and bourgeoisie--
quite particularly during the N. E.
P. period-there are conditions in
this country which render possible
the re-establishment Of capitalism.
Are there ways and means in this
Soviet country Of ours to destroy
the possibility of re-establishment
of capitalism? There certainly are.
1t is just on this fact that Lenin
based his thesis Of the possibility
Of complete Socialist form Of So
ciety in the Soviet Union. For this
purpose we need the consolidation
of proletarian dictatorship, the
strengthening of the alliance be-
tween working class and peasantry,
the development Of our commanding
! positions from the standpoint of an