The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-26
RENDERED GIDDY BY THE
SUCCESSES
BY J. STAIN.


n cesses of the Soviet power in the sphere
Of coectivising economy Even our enemies
are compelled to admit that considerable sue
cesses have been achieved. These successes
are really great. 1t is an actual fact that on
the goth of February last. already fifty per
cent of the peasant farms in the Soviet Union
had been colectivized, This means that on the
Goth of February. 1880, we had more than 200
per cent fulfilled the Five-Year Plan. 1t is
also a fact that already on the 28th of Feb
ruary the collective farms had furnished more
than SO million centals of spring seed corn,
or more than 80 per cent of the Plan, j. e., in
round numbers 220 million pools of seed corn.
Nobody can deny that the supplying of 220
million pools of seed corn by the collective
farms alone, following the successful carrying
out of the grain procuring campaign, repre-
sents an enormous achievement What does
all this prove? That we can regard the def
mite turn Of the village to socialism as already
assured.
There is no need to point out that all these
successes are of the very greatest importance
for our country, for the whole working class
as the leading power in our country, and final
ly for the Party itself. Apart from the direct
practical results, they are of enormous i'm
portance for the inner life and training of
our Party. They fill our Party with the spirit
of confidence and faith in its own powers.
They strengthen the belief of the working
class in the victory of our cause They lead
new million reserves to our Party.
This imposes upon our Party the task of
consolidating the successes already achieved
and Systematically making use of them for the
purpose of further advance,
These successes, however, also have their
shady SIDE especially when they are. attained
with relative cease" unexpectedly" so to
speak Such successes produce at times a
spirit of pride and arrogance: eve can do
everything" Everything is a mere trifle for
u.s." These successes often intoxicate people,
render them dizzy; they lose all sense of pro-
portion, the capacity to grasp reality; there
appears the tendency to overestimate ones
own forces and to underestimate those of the
enemy; adventurist attempts are made to
solve all questions of socialist construction
with "wave of the hand" One can no longer
be bothered with consolidating the successes
achieved and systematically making use of
them for further advance. Why should we
consolidate the successes achieved . we
shall hastily do everything with "a wave of
the hand" until the complete victory of So
cialism. eve can do everything" Every
thing is a mere trifle for u.s.
Therefore, our Party has the task of taking
up determined fight against these danger
Gus moods, which are harmful to the cause
and graduating them from the Party.
1t cannot be said that these dangerous
moods, which are harmful to the cause have
spread to any noteworthy extent in the ranks
of our Party. They nevertheless exist, and
there IS no reason for asserting that they
will not become stronger. And if these moods
should find root among US, then there can be
no doubt that there will take place a con-
ak pr1iO Of ba
movement and the danger of a destruction of
this movement can become real
1t is therefore the task of our press system
atically to expose these and similar anti
feminist moods.
And now few facts:
Firstly, the successes of our collective econ
onllc policy are due, among other things to the
fact that this policy is based upon the prin-
clple of voluntariness in the collective econ
omy movement, and takes into account the
manifold nature of the conditions in the var
lous districts of the Soviet Union. Collective
farms cannot be established by force Such a
course would be stupid and reactionary. The
collective economy movement must be based
upon the active support of the main masses
Of the peasantry. One cannot transplant the
methods Of collective economic construction as
they are applied in the advanced districts, to
the backward districts, such course would be
stupid and reactionary.
Such a "policy" would at one stroke dis
credit the idea of collectivization. In deter
mining the tempo and the methods in the
building up of collective farms we must care
fully take into account the varied nature of
the conditions obtaining in the different dis
trlcts Of the Soviet Union In the collective
economic movement the grain districts are
ahead OF all the other districts What is the
reason for this? Because we have in these
districts the greatest number of Soviet Estates
and collective farms which are already in
strong position, thanks to which the peasants
had the possibility of satisfying themselves as
to the power and the Importance of the new
technique, of the power and Importance of
the collective organization of economy and be-
cause these districts have had two wears
schooling in the fight against the kulaks dur
ing the grain campaigns, and further because
these districts have, in the last few years been
provided to an increased extent with the best
eadres from the industrial centers Can one
say that these specially favorable conditions
exist at present also in other districts, for in
stance in the corn importing districts of the
type OF our Northern provinces or in the dis
Sricts where there are still backward nation
allties, such Turkstan? No, one cannot
say that. 1t is clear that the principle of
'aking into account the mutifarious conditions
n the various districts of the Soviet Union is,
together with the principle of voluntariness,
'ne OF the most important preconditions for
sound collective economy movement.
What, however. is actually taking place