The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
Socialist Construction in U.S.S.R.
and 9TH Convention OF CPUSA

condition of this momentous development The
political precondition was the successful fight
against counter-revolutonar Trotskyism and
its complete liquidation, and the smashing of
the right wing which DISTRACTED the carrying
through of the Party line, ard reflected with
in the Party the pressure of hostile class
forces.
Opportunism.
1t is instructive to note the operation of
what might be called claw of gravitation"
of all brands of opportunists towards a single
platform, in the development of Trotskyites
and open right wing elements on the issue
before the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union Thus in the past six months Trotsky
has dropped his Cleft mask and come out
openly against collectivization, which he de-
scribes as the incubator of new class of
kulaks. He describes the collectives as the
introduction of capitalism under the cloak of
socialism. He considers the collective economy
as merely new capitalist form, and says thai
real collectivizatiOn is only possible in ten to
fifteen years-some time in the indefinite fu
ture. At the same time that he calls for post
ponement of collectivization in common with
the right wing, which they maintain is made
necessary because industry is not sufficiently
developed, they also call for a slackening down
IN the tempo of industrial development. In.
dustry, also, say both Trotsky and the right
wing, is being developed too fast. In short
Trotsky comes out with a full-blown right
wing opportunism theory. His cleft" pro
tective coloring is completely washed off in
the flood of the revolutionary upsurge in the
Soviet Union. He even comes out against the
liquidation of the kulaks as a class-under the
formula that classes cannot be liquidated by
administrative decree. But comrades, if the
October revolution taught one thing above all
it was that classes can be liquidated by the
revolutionary action of the masses, and for Is
years there has been no big bourgeoisie in
Russia. Now the most important section of
the Electromagnetic the kulaks, is being H.
quidated
Left" Slogans.
Of course, all those theories are the logical
result of Trotsky's cleft" slogan of the i'm.
possibility of building socialism in the Soviet
Union. Against the line of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, Trotsky propose
another basis for the Five-Year Plan-the
basis of collaboration with capitalist govern.
ments and with capitalism, using for this
purpose especially the development of good
relations with Macdonald, Scheidemann and
other social-democrats in imperialist govern
ment offices. Trotsky comes out openly with
the theory of building socialism with the aid
of the capitalist world, as a substitute for
the clear Bolshevik line of the C.P.S.U. which
is building socialism in the face of all the
attacks of the imperialist world against it.
The organized right wing group within the
eC.P.SU., led by Bukharn, has been defeated
smashed, dsin,egrated, beaten by the tremen
dous successes of the actual carrying out of
the FiveYear Plan and the exceeding of that
Plan.
1t would be mistake to u ink that with the
defeat of the right and left" deviations in
their organized expressions, the right and
left dangers are eliminated. They are not
Dying classes as Marx sad do not leave the
field of history without struggle These
struggles are still reflected within the Commu-
mist Party precisely because the Communist
Party is not bureaucratic machine but is
connected by thousands of threads with the
toiling masses throughout the country
The 10Th Congress.
The Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.,
which opens in few days WILL we know quite
well. register no change in the line which has
been so successfully followed but continue
ton Of that line Our comrades in the Soviet
Union are going to carry through the slogan