The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-14
By ]. STAIN.

BY j. SlALlN.
NUMBER 16 of the "Krasnaya Sweysda" con-
tains an article which while undoubtedly
correct on the whole nevertheless gives two
inexact Foundations. l think it is necessary
to correct these inexactitudes
In the first place the article states:
"In the restoration period we carried out
the policy of restricting the capitalist elements
in the town and in the village. With the COM
mencement of the reconstruction period we
went over from the policy of restricting to the
policy of ousting the capitalist elements"
This statement is incorrect. The policy of
restricting the capitalist elements and the
policy of BUSTING them are not two different
policies. 1t is one and the same policy. Gust
ing the capitalist elements in the village is an
inevitable result and an essential part of the
policy of restricting the capitalist elements,
the policy of restricting the exploiting ten
denotes of the kulaks. To GUST the capitalist
elements in the village is not to GUST the
kulaks as a class. To GUST the capitalist ele-
ments in the village is to GUST and overcome
individual groups of the kulaks which are I'M
able to withstand the pressure of taxation and
the restrictive measures employed by the So
Wet power. Of course the policy of restricting
the exploiting tendencies of the kulaks, the
policy of restricting the capitalist elements in
individual groups of kulaks. The ousting of
individual groups of the kulaks cannot there
fore be regarded as anything else but in
evitable result and essential part of the policy
of restricting the capitalist elements in the
village.
With US this policy was applied not only in
the restoration period but also in the recon-
struction period, in the period since the 18th
Party Congress December, 1920, in the per-
iod after the 18th Party Conference april,
1920 as well as after this conference until the
summer of 1929 when there commenced the
period of compact colectivizaton when the
turn to the policy of liquidating the kulaks as
class began.
If we examine the most important docu-
ments of the Party, beginning with the 18th
Party Congress in December, 1925 (see reso-
luton on the Report of the Central Commit
tee) and ending with the 10th Party confer
ence in April, 1929 (see the Resolution on
"The ways to raise the level of agriculture'o,
we are bound to notice that this thesis on
Restricting the exploiting tendencies of the
kulaks" or Restricting the growth of capt.
talism in the village" always stands beside the
thesis on "Ousting the capitalist elements in
the village" on Overcoming the capitalist
elements in the village"
What does that mean?
1t means that the Party does not separate
the oustng of the capitalist elements in the
village from the policy of restricting the ex-
plotting tendencies of the capitalist elements
in the village.
The 18th Party Congress and also the 10th
Party Conference stood WIDELY and entirely
on the basis of the policy of restricting the
efforts at exploitation on the part of the agri-
cultural bourgeoisie" Resolution of the 18th
Party Congress on work in the Village.")
On the basis of the policy of employing new
measures which restrict the development of
capitalism in the village UbidD, on the basis
Of the policy of "decisvely restricting the ex-
plotting tendencies of the kulaks" (see the
resolution of the 18th Party Congress on the
Five-Year Plan), on the basis of the policy of
"attack on the kulaks" in the sense of the
TRANSITION to more extensive systematic
and energetic restriction of the kulaks and of
private property" Qbid), on the basis of the
policy of "still more determined economic
squeezing out" of the Elements of private
capitalist economy in town and country" (see
resolution of the 18th Party Congress on the
Report of the c. CO..
Therefore (a) the author of the article in
question is wrong when he represents the pol
icy of restricting the capitalist elements and
the policy of ousting them as two different