The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-04

ton of the kulak in the year 1920. You {
know that in 1927 the collective farms
Soviet estates delivered more than $50 MILL
pools of commodity grain (that is more tn
the kulaks in the year 1920. In the year Is
the total production of the collective farms
Soviet estates will amount to no less than
million pools ii. e. considerably more than t
total production of the kulaks in the year 1872
and they will supply not less than 400 mill
pools of commodity grain ii. e. incomparaf
more than the kulak in the year 1920.
As is to be seen, today there exists the
terial basis enabling the big peasant prod,
ton to be replaced by that of the collect
farms and Soviet estates. That is why
attack on the kulaks has now met with I
deniable success. That is how one must
tack the kulak, when it is question of r,
attack and not empty defamation. 1t is,
this reason that we have recently gone y
from the policy of restricting the exploi
tendencies of the kulak to the policy of Ii
dating the kulak.
Now how shall we approach the policy
Decentralization" (purging the village of
kulaks-Ed)? Can we permit dekulakizati
in the fully collectivized districts-this gu
ton is put from various sides. A ridiculc /
question:! We could not permit dekulakizati |
so long as we were pursuing the policy |
restricting the exploiting tendencies of II
kulaks, so long as we had no possibility of i
placing big peasant production by the prod
ton of the collective farms and Soviet estat
At that time policy which did not perm
rehabilitation was correct and necessary.
Today the matter is different. Today
have the possibility of making decided alta
on the kuak, breaking his resistance, liquid
ing him as class and replacing his prod,
ton by the production of the collective far
and Soviet estates. Today rehabilitation
being carried out by the masses of poor a
middle peasants themselves, who are realizi
complete collectivizaton. In the complete
collectivized districts rehabilitation is tod
no longer simple administrative measure,
forms an integral part of the formation a
development of collective farms. Thereto
it is ridiculous and nonsensical to talk
about rehabilitation. AS a Russian prove
says: "a beheaded man does not bemoan t
loss of his hair"
No less ridiculous is the other quesi
whether we can accept the kulaks in the
lective farms. Of course not as he is a sy!
enemy of the collectivization movement. 7
matter is perfectly plain.
7. Conclusions.
There are therefore six knotty questio
which the theoretical work of our Marx
agrarian researchers cannot pass over.
The Importance of these questions consi!
before all in the fact that their Marxist elal
ration furnishes the possibility of extermin;
ing root and branch all and every kind of boz
geos theory which at times-to our shame
are spread by our Communist comrades
which confuse the heads of our practical wo1
ers. And it is really high time that the
theories were rooted out and discarded. It
only in ruthless fight against these theor
that the theoretical ideas of the Marxist agl
rian researchers can grow and become strq'
The Importance of these questions consi
finally, in the fact that they place the
problems of the economy of the transit
period in new light.
Today the question of the NEP, the questi
| of the classes, of the collective farms, of t
economy of the transition period are approach
in new manner. The mistakes of those W
| regard the NEP as retreat and only as
| retreat, must be dragged to the light of de
| AS matter of fact Lenin said already at t
| time of the introduction of the NEP that t
! NEP represents not only a retreat, but it
at the same time the preparation for a Mt
| and decisive attack on the capitalist elemer
! in town and country.
| 1t is necessary to expose the mistakes
/ those who believe that the NEP was necessa
only for the purpose of connecting the toy
| and the country. We cannot make use of eve
| connection between town and country. We
quire such connection as will guarantee t
victory of socialism. And if we cling to t
| NEP it is because it serves the cause of soci;
ism. AS soon as it ceases to be serviceable
the cause of socialism we will fling it ASH
| Lenin said that the NEP was introduced 81
ously and for long time. But he never n
| that it had been introduced for all time.
We must also put the question of populs
| izing the Marxist theory of reproduction. '
| must work out the question of the construct
| scheme of the balance of our national econon
! That which the Central Statistical Office p
| forward in the year 1926 as the balance of t
! national economy is not balance but a gar
| with figures. Also the manner in which B
| sallow and Gromann treat the problem of t
balance of national economy does not bring
any nearer to the matter. The revolutiona
| Marxists must work out the scheme of t
| national economic balance if they wish to e
| gage at all in the working out of the econom
| questions of the transition period. It won
| be good if our Marxist economists appoint
| special group from their circle who won
haye the task of working out the econom
| problems of the transition period as they &C
| front us today.
The End