The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-26

internal industrial development can
really solve the problem before u.s."
However, this method cannot be ac-
cepted by us on principle because if
that were carried to its logical con-
clus!on it would seem that instead of
investing capital in the development
of heavy industry, we would have
to invest it in agriculture as q
means of export.
Such an economic policy would
obviously not lead to the industriali-
cation, but rather to the agrariani-
cation of the country, not to it's
emancipation from dependence on
the foreign market, but to it's per-
petual dependence, to its technical
conservation and lasting stagnation
in industry. Therefore, this line
was also resolutely rejected by the
Party, just as the line of high
prices, which was one of the ultra
industrialist manifestations of the
Trotskyist tendencies.
This being the case, way nut
of the situation is sought in the
curtailment of the demand by re-
ducing the monetary appropriations
and by diminishing our new con-
struction as we'll as the develop
want ~ ,or,,e+,;os ,,b;o1, rao,,i,a ~
durable period of construction. The
chief background of this is of course
an uncritical, non-dialectical panic,
q capitulation in face OF temporary
hardships Of growth instead Of try
ing to surmount them, an actual I'M
willingness to abide by the indust-
realization policy, of the Party, I'M
material as to the oaths in favour
Of the industrialization which ac-
company this unwillingness,
Our Way of Surmounting the
Difficulties.
Since the problem Of Industrial.
cation of the country has nor
cropped up accidentally, since that
problem is historically necessary
and inevitable for US, simple cur
tailment Of new construction is
therefore not so Simple" for us
we must seek less elementary, but
more palpable way out of the
economic difficulties, a way which
would dissolve the cluster of diff
culties which we now have without
a naticeable retreat at the front OF
socialist industrialization of the
country.
Neither the straight road OF
avoiding an accentuated commodity
famine, the road CT which Marx
Fpoke with regard to communist
society, nor the capitalist road, arc
suitable in our case. We must seek
and use special new methods
methods suitable to the peculiaritie3
OF tho transition period.
Apparently such temporary
way out (prior 20 the conclusion OF
the period of constructor and be-
ire the newly constructed objects
begin 20 produce for the markets)
would be a cautious system o.
manoeuvering with the available
and produced commodity supplies q
most planful and rational distrihu-
lion of these supplies and give the
greatest satisfaction to the con-
sumers, finally such a method as
would make possible to pas1
through the stringency with tho
least pain which is inevitable when
there is shortage in commodities,
endeavoring to mitigate and reduce
the shortage as much as possible,
but not submitting to a panic, not
retreating and not captivating be-
fore the blind forces of the market,
a victory over which as any other
struggle and victory, demands GER
tain privations, hardships and sell
denial.
And when the Party, in raising
before the working class the hard
ships and tho problems arising dur
ing the period of socialist construc-
ton, speaks of them as hardships
Of growth, it gives serious, eco
iomically correct and theoretically
well-founded definition which finds
its full confirmation in Marks pro-
found analysis which we have given
above. Our hardships are hard
ships of growth, and we therefore
have full reason for considering
them as temporary, we have full
reason for looking forward towards
their disappearance in the not dis
tant future.
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