The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
Hopes of Capitalist World, Propaganda of
Sccial-Traitors and Anti-Leninist Proposals
Come to Naught

present in the political rule of the
capitalist class, but also a most
important economic factor, present
N the form Of organization of the
production and distribution of the
necessities of life of society. The
decisive political factor of capital
ism, the rule of the capitalist class,
can be eliminated with the defeat
Of capitalist rule and the establish
ment Of a proletarian dictatorship.
No matter how long period of
struggle may precede the proletar-
ian victory, this result of the pro-
letarian revolution is achieved with
the establishment of the Soviet
power. But the economic reorgani-
cation Of society cannot be accomp-
lished in such a short and abrupt
way. In order to guarantee the
physical life of society there must
be a continuity of its economic life.
And such a continuity is possible
only with the continued use of
considerable part of the economic
structure left to the proletarian
dictatorship by capitalism. Parts of
this structure can be socialized i'm
mediately. Other parts must be
maintained and utilized as they are.
Those parts, that can be socialized
at cnce, must be enlarged, improved
and extended so that they will
gradually replace and crowd out the
remaining capitalist elements in the
economic structure. 1t is the func-
ton of the proletarian dictatorship
first of all ito carry through this
specialization and it's extension. But
the remaining of some capitalist
remnants in the economic struc-
lures of the revolutionary country
is the source of a continued life of
remnants of the capitalist class.
The conscious suppression of this
remnant of the capitalist class is
the second important function of the
pro!etarian dictatorship.
Russian Revolution Must Wrestle
with Backward Agriculture.
The Soviet power in Russia found,
after its establishment, a really ire
mendous section of the economic
structure of Russia incapable Of
immediate quick specialization. This
was the backward agricultural Sec
ton of Russian economy. This
backward section of Russian econ
omy also maintains the politically
most backward section of the Soviet
Union, a remnant of capitalism, the
peasantry.
Side by side with this most back
ward section of Russian economy
there existed a comparatively limit
ed industrial development of the
economic structure of Russia.
Russia therefore was burdened with
tremendous number of small pro-
ductive units as well as large
sector of independent small dis
tributing agencies. The technical
backwardness of these units and
sectors did not allow speedy social
ization. And their comparative i'm
portance in the national economy
did not allow their radical elimina-
ton.
The New Economic Policy, insti-
tuted in March, 1921, and designed
by Lenin, represented a system of
transitory national economy for the
revolutionary SOVIET power. This
system, commonly known as the
NEP, allowed the existence side by
side of Soviet sector of economy,
cooperative sector of economy,
and a private or capitalist sector
of economy. All of these three Sec
tors were to supply the Soviet Union
with the economic necessities Of its
existence and further development.
With the use of the proletarian state
power the Soviet and the co-opera-
tive sectors of economy were to be
Systematically extended, while, at
the same time, the capitalist sector
was to be used and exploited but
also kept in bounds. The building OF
socialism would succeed in the ratio
in which the Soviet and the co-opera-
tive sectors of economy would out
grow the capitalist sector. The