The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-08
The Political Report Of the Central Committee the XVI Party Cong
ofhe Communist arty Of the Soviet Union Stains Address

the present small peasant system of livestock
}ree ling and cultivation of technical plants by
means of the organization of Soviet and col
lective farms, the fulcrums of our policy.
Cattle breeding" 'sheep breeding" "pg
breeding" dairy trust" plus collective live
stock breeding undertakings. The existing
Soviet and collective agricultural undertakings
engaged in the cultivation of technical plants
are the starting points of the solution of this
problem.
2. The problem of the further development
of the Soviet and collective farms. 1t need
scarcely be emphasized that for our advance
ment in the village this problem is of para
mount importance Now even the blind must
see that among the peasantry mighty AMI
decisive turn from the old to the new has
taken place; from enslavement under the
kulak to the free life of the collectives. There
is no going back to the old. The kulak system
is condemned to extinction, and will disappear.
Only one way remains open, the way of the
collective farm; and this way is no longer I'M
known and untrodden. 1t has been tried and
tested by the peasants themselves in a thou
sand ways. Tre1 and judged as something
new, something bringing the peasants liberia
ton from enslavement under the kulaks, from
want and ignorance. This is the fundamental
point of our achievements.
How will the movement in the village de-
velop further? The Soviet farms, our most
powerful aid in the reorganization of the
structure of the village, will march at the
head. They will be followed by the numerous
collective farms furthering the new movement
in the villages. The collaboration of the two
systems creates the conditions for the COM
plete collectivization of every part of the Sow
let Union.
One of the most remarkable achievements of
the collective farming movement is the fact
that it has already produced thousands of
peasant organizers and tens of thousands of
agitators. We, the qualified Bolshevists, are
no longer alone; the peasants on the collective
farms, the tens of thousands of peasant or
ganizers and agitators for the cause of the
collective farming movement, now bear for
ward the banner of colectvzaton. They are
splendid agitators for the collective farms, for
they find arguments in favor of collectiviza-
tion which are comprehensive and acceptable
to other peasants, arguments which would
never occur to US, the qualified Bolshevists,
even in a dream.
Here and there we hear of the necessity of
abandoning the policy of entire collectivization.
There are signs that adherents of this "idea"
are to be found even in our Party. But only
those who have, consciously or unconsciously,
Joined with the enemies of Communism can
speak thus. The method of entire collectiviza-
ton is that necessary method without which
the carrying out of the Five-Year Plan of col
lectivization in every district. of the Soviet
Union is impossible. How can we renounce
this method without betraying Communism,
without committing treason against the in
terests of the workers and peasants? This
does not of course mean that in the work of
the collective farms everything is bound to run
normally" as if "oiled." There will always
be ups and downs in the collective undertake
ings. There will be high and low tides. But
this cannot and must not confuse the adherents
of the collective farming movement Still less