The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
USSR HEROES ON
ECONOMIC FRONT
BUILD 5 YR.: PLAN
Take Part in Living
Class Struggle
By L. F. yINOv.

teal material, how much can be
gotten out of the economic re-
sources of the country, and then
set up a program. Either this pro-
gram is carried out, and that means
the plan was good, or it is not car
ried out, in which case mistakes
must have been made in setting it
up.
The planned economy of pro-
letarian state must under no cir
cumstances be understood so me-
chemically. One must not forget
for a single instant that the Five
Year Plan is really not "plan"
in the normal sense of the word,
but a strategical plan of the class
struggle of the ruling class, the
proletariat. -
The carrying out of the Five
Year Plan is not a purely technical
performance of achievements laid
down "from above" but it is the liv-
ing class struggle, and only the
CidSS COllSClOuo, dStifS ouPpoie Va
the masses can help it to victory.
The production plan of great cap
italist trust can be better carried
out the less the workers of the trust
think about it or what it means,
just as a bourgeois army is the
more efficient the less its soldiers
think about whose interests they
are defending.
In a proletarian state, however,
exactly the opposite is true. This
is not an "agitational phrase" 1t
can be proven quite concretely by
figures. Why do bourgeois and So
cial democratic observers find the
tremendous socialist constructive
plan in the Soviet Union so 'utop-
ian," so impossible to realization?
The reason is that they fail to
grasp the difference between the
social driving forces of economic
life in their countries and in the
Soviet Union, because their class
attitude prevents them from under
standing this difference.
When such observers describe the
economic plans of the Soviet Union
as utopian, they do not make any
mathematical error. From the
standpoint of "pure mathematics, +"
that which the Soviet Union is
carrying out upon the economic
field is impossible.
"Class" Mathematics
Our advantage, however, is that
we do not reckon with "pure mathe-
matics," but with the class mathe-
MATES of the revolutionary prole-
taria. But even from the stand
point of pure mathematics, prole-
tartan planned economy has q num-
Der Of advantages which capitalist
economy has not.
In Tsarist Russia, for example,
approximately 100000 Pounds
Sterling of the surplus value pro-
duced by the workers was expended
in luxuries for the bourgeosie. To-
day this tremendous amount re-
mains in production. Further, the
possibilities of planned economy in
a, for the most part, systematically
organized economic system, permit
a far more rational utilization of
economic forces, etc.
The class mathematics which the
bourgeois theoretician is unable to
understand, actually commence
when the masses themselves begin
to take an active part in economic
development. The Five-Year Plan
is q struggle with all the joys of
victory, but also with all the sacri-
fees which the class struggle de-
mands. 1t is an enthusiastic strug-
gle for new proletarian life. We
must never forget this when we
read and study the figures, the re-
suits, thee difficulties and the sue
cesses of the socialist constructive
work.
The right-wingers and the vacil-
lating elements in the Soviet Union
failed to take into account these
"class mathematics" or, to use a
Marxist expression, these dialetics
of the proletarian revolution. They
calculated and calculated and
finally shook their heads and de-
clared that such plan could not
possibly be carried out.
One of the most characteristic
expressions Of this pessimism was
the opinion that the production
plan and the capital investments
plan could not be carried out be-
cause there was not sufficient
building material to carry out the
building plan, and so on.
Here we saw the same thing.
Mechanically, perhaps, this was
right, but nevertheless the indus
trial production plan as laid down
by the Five-Year Plan for the eco
nomic year was carried out in full,
and more than that, exceeded the
estimate.
The possibilities of development
for the coming year are even
greater than those provided for in
the Five-Year Plan. Let US COM
pare three figures. They refer to
the development Of industry in the
economic year 1929-30. The So
called commencing variant" of the
Five-Year Plan reckoned with an
increase of 1915 per cent. The right
wing comrades declared even this