The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

participation Of England, etc. and
by the systematic provocation of
conflicts with the U. S. S. R. through
attacks on the Soviet diplomatic rep
resentatives. The attack of the Chi
nese counter-revolutionist on the
Soviet consulate in Hardin, an attack
provoked by the imperialist powers;
the brazen breach of treaty relations
with the U.S.S.R.; the seizure of the
Chinese Eastern Railroad by the
Chinese militarist; the mass arrests
ard violence against the Soviet
workers and employees represent, on
the part of international finance
capital, direct provocation Of war
against the Soviet Union.
All this preparation for new impe-
rialist wars are being carried out
with the active aid and all-around
participation Of the Socialist par
ties" whose cleft" wing plays the
most hideous role by covering up
these preparations with pacifist
phrases.
2. Al the same time the hopes of
the bourgeoisie for a capitalist de-
generation of the Soviet Union, for
its gradual subsection to the capt.
talist world and for its being trans
formed, in this way, into a colony
Of international capital, have proven
futile. Despite the greatest diff
culties (the technical and economic
backwardness inherited from the
past, the extremely low level of
peasant economy, the hostile capt.
talist encirclementl the U. S. S. R.,
under the leadership of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union,
has developed a victorious offensive
against the capitalist elements of
city and village, thus securing a de-
cisive preponderance of the socialist
forms of economy over the capitalist
clements. The powerful sweep of
mass collectivization of agriculture
on the basis of raising its technical
level; the building of collective
farms, Of machine and tractor CEN
tiers; finally the impetuous growth
Of socialist industry-all this creates
the new Observation-Disclosures
Of the bond (smytchka) that ties to-
gether the peasantry and the work
ing class, thus strengthening the
main positions of proletarian dicta-
tcrship. The enthusiasm of the pro-
letariat engaged in building up So
cialism now finds an ever more pow
erful expression in the spread of So
cialist emulation tending to increase
the productivity of labor, to increase
the industrial output; in the inten-
sified struggle against bureaucrat-
ism, in the cleansing of the state APP
paratus from elements alien to the
Soviet power, etc.
The five-year plan of socialist
construction, adopted with view of
further carrying into life the rapid
tempo of industrialization of the
U. S. s, R.; of developing the pro-
dUction of means of production to
the highest maximum possible; of
decisively strengthening the social
ist section in urban and rural eco
nomy at the expense of the capitalist
elements; of raising agriculture to
substantially higher level which is
connected with drawing millions of
peasants into the work of socialist
construction; of considerably raising
the material and cultural standards
Of the prcletariat and of the toiling
masses of the village,-are the
greatest achievement not only of the
toiling masses of the U. S. s. R.,
but also of the entire International
prcletariat. The successful realiza-
ton Of this great plan, as already
begun, strengthens the socialist
foundations of proletarian dictator
ship, increases its defensive power
and, consequently, strengthens the
fighting position of the worl4 pro-
letarian revolutionary movement.
The successful movement of the U.
S. S. r. along the road of socialism
is the most important factor under
mining capitalist sterilization and
sharpening the general crisis of capt.
talism.
3. The attempts of the bourgeoi-
sic to establish Industrial peace"
in the chief capitalist countries have
also proven futile. Under circum-
stances where the broadest masses
of the population are becoming i'm
poverished, there looms before the
bourgeoisie in an ever sharper form
the insoluble problem of markets,
problem becoming more acute not
only due to the growth of Ike pro-
duction apparatus, but also to the
high prices established by monopoly
trusts and cartels, to the barbed
wire tariff barriers, to the industrial
development of the economically
backward countries, to the general
instability of the situation IN the
colonies, etc. The attempts of the
bourgeoisie to circumnavigaie this
decisive contradiction by means of
carrying out broad capitalist ra-
tionalization, has remained futile.
The carrying out of decentralization
still further deepens this contradic-
ton. BY increasing the production
capacities of its industrial apparatus,
by squeezing out millions of hands
from the industrial process, by still
further sharpening competition in
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