The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22

Speaking of the voluntary principle in build
ing up collective economy Lenn said:
Our task is to go over to SocialiZed
cultivation of the soil, to go over to common
big economy, but there must be compulsion
of any sort on the part of the Soviet Power.
No law of any sort compels thereto. The agri-
cultural communes are formed voluntarily; the
transition to the sccialized cultivation of the
soil can only be voluntarily. There must not be
and there will also not be permitted by the
law the least compusion on the part of the
workers and peasants government in this re-
spect. If any of you have observed such acts
of compulsion you must know that this is an
abuse. that it constitutes violation of the
law which we are endeavoring to put right and
will put right with all our forces" Uenin,
Volume Xxx, 2nd Part, Russian edition, Page
320)
And further
"Only when we succeed in showing the
peasant by means of facts the advantages of
socialized collective cooperative common Tar
tels) cultivation of the SOIL only when we sue
coed in helping the peasants with the aid of
cooperative collective economy, only then will
the working class which holds the state power
in its hands, really prove to the peasants that
it was right, will it really in tenable and cor
rect way draw the masses of peasants. num-
bering millions, over to its side Therefore, it
is impossible to overestimate the Importance Of
all kinds of undertakings for promoting CO.
operative collective cultivation of the soil. We
have millions of individual farms, scattered
about in the most remote villages. Only
when we prove practically on the basis of ex-
periences, which the peasant can understand,
that the transition to cooperative, collective
cultivation of the land is necessary and pos
sible will we have the right to say that in
such a vast peasant country Russia, SER
ious step has been made the way to So
cialist agriculture" Uenin, Volume XVI,
Russian edition, Page 1927
Finally yet another passage from the works
of Lenin:
'In encouraging and squirting on the CO.
operatives of every kind as well as the agr-
cultural communes of the middle peasants,
the representatives of the Soviet Power must
not permit the least compulsion in the crea-
ton of such communes and cOOperatives.
Only such associations of value which
have been carried out by the peasants on
their free initiative and whose advantages
had been proved and tested by them In
practice Immoderate haste in this matter.
is harmful, as it only increase the pre-
JUDGE of the middle peasantry towards in
novations. Such representatives of the So
Wet Power who permit not only the direct
but also the indirect employment of cOmpul.
sion LOT tne purpose VI unltihS tHc PedsoutS
in communes must be sharply called to ac-
count and removed from their work in the
villages" Uenin, Volume XVI. Russian edi-
tion page 519)
That appears clear 1t is hardly necessary
to say that the Party will carry out with the
greatest strctness these instructions of Lenin.
They destroyed the feminist principle of TAX
ing into account the varied character of the
conditions in the different districts of the So
Wet Union in regard to the establishment of
collective farms. They forgot that there exists
in the Soviet Union the most varied districts
with different economic structure and level of
culture They forgot that among these districts
there are advanced, middle and backward dis
tricts. They forgot that the tempo of the col
lective economy movement and the methods
of establishing collective farms cannot be the
same for all these districts which are not by
any means uniform.
at would be a mistake" said Lenn, "were
the comrades simply to write stereotyped de-
crees for all parts of Russia, if the Bolshevik-
Communists, the Soviet functionaries in the
Ukraine and in the Don to begin indis-
criminately to extend them a large scale to
the other districts" for, 1--WE not connected
by stereotyped formulaes, do not decide
once and for all that our experiences, the ex-
periences of Central Russia can be trans
districts" Volume XVI, page 1867
Lenin further said: "To subject Central Rus
STA, the Ukraine and Siberia to certain stereo-
typed formula would be the greatest stupid
ity." Volume XVIII, part l. Russian edition,
page 143)
Finally Lenn renders it incumbent upon the
Communists of the Caucasus "to understand
the REGULARITY of their Republic in contrast to
the situation and conditions of the R.F.S.S.R.
and the necessity of not copying tactics
but altering them carefully in accordance with
the development of the concrete conditions"
Volume XVIII. Russian edition, part I. p. 200)
That seems to be clear. Basing itself upon
these instructions of Lenin, the Central Com
mittee of our Party in its decision "on the
tempo of collectivization" (See Pravda of Jan.
garded from the standpoint of the tempo of
collectivization into three groups of which the
North Caucasus, the centre AMI lower Volga
district will be able to end their collectviza-
ton by Spring 1881, whilst the other corn dis
trcts (the Ukraine, central black earth dis
trict, Siberia, Urals, Kasakstan, etc. will be
able to end the collectivization by the Spring
of 1882, and the remaining districts can ex-
tend the period of collectivization up to the
end of the Five-Year Plan, l. e., until 1885,
That appears to be clear. And what has
actually TRANSFERRED? We found that some of
our comrades, intoxicated by the first successes
of the collective economy movement, absolutely
forgot the instructions of Lenin and also the
decisions of the Central Committee. The Mos
cow district in its feverish desire for inflated
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