The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
The Political Report Of the Central Committee the XVI Party Coe
ofe Communist arty the Soviet Union Stains Address June q IS

full offensive of socialism on the whole front
of the liquidation of the kulak as class and
of the realization of complete collectivization.
This summed up briefly, is the essence of
the general line of our Party
Is this line correct?
Yes, it is correct. Facts show that the gen.
eral line of our Party is the only correct line.
It's correctness is shown by the successes
and achievements which we have attained on
the front of socialist reconstruction 1t would
never have been possible and is still not pos
sible, that the decisive victory won by the
Party during the recent period on the front
of socialist construction in town and country
could be the result of mistaken policy. Moth
ing but a correct general line could have gained
such victory for us.
1t is shown by the bowls of rage raised
against the Party of late by our class enemies,
the capitalists and their press, the pope and
the various bishops, the social democrats and
the Russian" Menshevists of the Abramoyitsch
and Dan type. The capitalists and their lackeys
revile our Party-therefore the general line
of our Party is correct. (Applause.)
1t is shown by the fate of Trotskyism, well
known to ALL The gentlemen of the Trotskyist
camp babbled about the degeneration" of the
Soviet power, about ''Thermidor," about the
inevitable victory" of Trotskyism, and so forth
And what really happened? The decline and
end of Trotskyism. One section of the Trotsky-
lists has broken with Trotskyism and has adj
mitted in the numerous declarations made by
its representatives, that the Party has been
right; these have certified the counter-revolu-
tionary nature of Trotskyism. The other
ton of the Trotskyists has actually degenerat-
ed into typically petty bourgeois counter-rev-
olutionists to such an extent that 1T has ac-
tually become news service OF the capitalist
press for the affairs of the C.P.S.U. The Soviet
power, on the other hand, supposed to be "de-
generating" Cor to have already degenerated)
continues to enjoy the best of health, and is
building up Socialism, thereby successfully cut
ting the ground from beneath the feet of the
capitalist elements of our country and their
petty bourgeois imitators.
1t is shown by the fate, also known to all,
of the Right opportunists. They walled and la
mented over the ruined" Party line, over the
"probable catastrophe" in the Soviet Union,
over the necessity of Saving" the country
from the Party and its leaders, etc. And what
has actually happened? The Party has attained
great success on every front of socialist con-
struction, whilst the group of the Right, so
anxious to "save" the country, but then obliged
to admit the erroneousness of their views, are
now stranded
1t is known by the growing revolutionary
activity of the working classes and the peas
antry, the active support given the Party by
the millions of the working masses, and finally
by the unprecedented working enthusiasm of
the workers and of the peasants on the col
lective farms, making a profound impression
on the foes and friends of our country. l need
make no special reference to such signs of
the growing confidence in the Party as the
application for membership made by whole
factories and departments of undertakings the
increase in the membership of the Party by
more than 100000 between the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Congresses, and the admission of
100000 new members to the Party in the first
quarter of this year alone. What else does all
this show but that the masses recognize the
policy pursued by our Party to be the right
one, and are ready to support it?
1t must be admitted that these facts would
not exist if the general line of the Party were
not the only right line.