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ssFse1 covered by the plan by 24fc compared
~. with the previous year, exceeding the plan by
21a%o. The cost of production was lowered by
go as against 7f6 fixed in the plan. In 1929
,ss.., the sown area whole rose by GO. The in
Nm crease in the sown areG of collective farms was
as 5000 instead of 1929 as fixed in the plan. In
j ~ 1927 there were 1905 collective farms com
pared with $4,000 in 1929. Inc productivity
per worker increased 17fc, wages increased
-.hy 22Pc compared with the pre-war rate, while
- the average working day in industries is 754
This contrast between capitalist crisis and So
scialist prosperity gives the verdict Of history,
and of the toiling masses, of the final bank
aassrpptcy of reformism 1t proves even for the
gesN backward strata of the toiling masses that
S@ prosperity cannot be achieved under CAPT
$3.50 talism, and only by armed overthrow of the
- bourgeose, by the Dictatorship of the Prole-.
tariat, in the alliance of the workers and small
farmers; through the naturalization of indus
try and the land and the monopoly of foreign
trade by the Soviet Power which alone made
49, possible the first appearance in history of
to- planned economy in the building of socialism.
80 VIII. Opportunist Theories in the Light of
esG- the Crisis
sasoa$s
Rs2 10. The economic crisis reveals more clearly
the opportunistic character of the theories put
forth by the international right-wing N its
4o123 Buchsrin of the disappearance of markets,
a@prices, competition and crises that capitalism
~ loses its anarchic character means that with
H41oi the disappearance of competition within the
'"'s capitalist countries the spontaneous regulation
s. OF production by competition and crisis is re-
& placed by conscious organized control by the
-at capitalist class market relations replaced
:, by organized distribution and social division of
labor by only technical division of labor. The
economic crisis destroys this opportunstic illu
Il hat
tgtsssastcapitast national economy is transformed
t;te from irrational system into rational or
q .ganzatien, from subjectess economy into an
~ economic subject" (BuchaTin) The economic
sskff crisis has shown that not the organized CAPT
3s+ talist control but the catastrophe of economic
crisis remains the regulator of capitalist pro-
ts.r sducton, that the inner competition however,
becoming less visible, continues to exist side by
J side with monopolies, and even more, the mo-
,-ss nopolistic trusts continue to compete among
SO, themselves, aeeentuating the uneveness of de-
49, yelopment within the capitalist system, and
n finally, that there is class force, forgotten
s, by the theorists of "organized capitalism, the
.a-- struggling proletari0t, every day destroying
, the capitalist Organization" and role of the
class struggle as regulator of capitalist deVel-
eR sopment.
q ger Lenin wrote in May, 1917, on the question
of the elaboration of the Russian Party pro-
gram. n aess.'
50 =. "Intper,ut,sm; IN tact, neither does, NOR
CAN, TRANSFORM capitalism from top to
issi@s bottom. Imperialism aggrauates and sharpens
the contradictions of capitalism, it intertp0ines'
'sl. monopoly ,oith free competition, but it CAN
NOT ABOLISH exchanges the market, compe-
tition, crises, etc. Imperialism is capitalism
t passing out not capitalism gone; it is capital
~ g ism dying, not dead. Not pure monopolies, but
7l' n,onopoties alongside of competition, exchange
markets. and cfises--this generally, IS the
lsk most essential features of Experimentation
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