The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-26
(Continued)

! Continued
Dear Comrades. The development
of our economy is characterized by a
distinct upward tendency, by the
growth of the productive forces in
town and country, by an extension
of the socialist elements of economy.
We have completed the process of
the restoration of economy. We
have entered on the period of recon-
struction of economy. the period of
the immediate socialist transforma-
ton on the basis of the new tech
nique. The slogan of industrializa-
ton was and remains the chief slo-
gan of socialist construction. The
key to the development of industry
and to a certain extent of agricul-
ture is, however, heavy industry, the
production of the means of produc-
ton.
eve know" said Lenin, "that
Russia cannot be saved merely by q
good harvest of the peasant eco
nomy-that is not sufficient; not
only by the good situation of the
light industry-this also does moi
suffice; we also need a heavy in
dustry. D..
Without the restoration of heavy
industry, without its reconstruction
we shall rot be able to build up in
dustry. Without it we are alto
gether doomed as an independent
country"
Difficulties of Reconstruction
But the period of reconstruction
the period of the transformation OF
industry and agriculture on the
basis of the new technique has, un'
der our conditions, special diff
culties which sometimes cause vacil'
lations in some sections Of our Party
which must be overcome at all costs
If we are to be successful.
Unlike the capitalist countries
we have built up our industry, botf
the heavy and the light industry
without anv influx of means from
abroad (without any loans from the
capitalists), by means of our owl
inner resources on the basis of the
common efforts of the working class
and the peasantry of our country
But in view of our technical back
wardness it is impossible to develop
industry at such a rate, that it doe'
not lag h e h nd the capitals
countries, but reaches and overtake'
them--as Lenin has taught th'
Party-without the greatest exertiol
of the means and forces of the coun
try, without. Great perseverance
without iron discipline Of the pro
letarian ranks.
The difficulties arising on thi
path-the straining of our materia
resources, the shortage of goods etc.
create certain vacillations both il
some strata of the working class ant
in some sections of our Party. Oh
this basis there sometimes arise in
clinations towards a rivision of tn
course of the Party, towards a slow
ing down of the rate of development
of industry in general and heavy in
dustry in particular. In place of
Bolshevist overcoming Of the diff
culties there is a flight from them
These tendencies lead to loss of tn
perspective of socialist construction
and betray a failure to understan,
that the slowing down of the rate o
development of heavy industry woul
result in the near future in still
greater difficulties; that tn
material and cultural situation o
the working class would be worsene
and that the country would fall int
state of dependence upon worl
capital which would weigh heavil
upon it. The Party, in defending tn
present rate of industrializatior
proceeds from the fact that withou
a systematic DEVELOPMENT of industr
in general and of heavy industry i
particular. a serious improvement o
the material and cultural situatio
of the working class is impossible.
Agrarian naturalization Needed
The industrialization of the cour
try, however, is not exhausted b
the development of light and heav
industry alone. 1t means at tn
same time the development of agri
culture upon a new technical basis
the supply of the individual peasan
: undertakings with new means o
f production, the raising of their out
bining into collective undertakings
4 the creation and development o
/. powerful Soviet undertakings.
, If agriculture cannot develop t
the necessary extent without indus