The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-31
SOVIET PLANS END
TO PRIVATE TRADE
Russia Seen Entering Another
Stage Of Socialism With the
miration O. RevlslOnary
Era. Step Called Epochal.

Moscow, Jan. ga resolution
lust adopted by the Moscow Com
munist party committee, which is
second only to the Central party
committee in influence, is the lat
est outcome of NJ. Stains speech
of ten days ago, in which he re-
affirmed the socialistic aims OF the
Kremlin. The Communist party
decision which followed that
speech amplified NJ. Stains
words; the Moscow resolution
completes and explains the deci-
sion.
The resolution asserts that not
only must the kulak, or rich peas
ant, as a class be "iquidated," but
that "this process must imply the
basic liquidation of the part being
taken by private capital in COM
merce and the liquidation of the
'Nepman' as a class in the Soviet
State.
Militant Communism Maturing.
Thus M. Stains new militant
communism as conceived year or
more ago is maturing. And so 1t
now appears that instead of the
new economic policy being on the
point of abrupt burial, it is, as
NJ. Stain has declared, reaching
the elimination of the revisionary
process which has been operating
for the last six or seven years.
In 1921 Lenin, a great revolu-
tionary opportunist, realized that
militant communism was for the
time being impossible, and accord
inglv he altered things. For g
courle of years he gave private
capital and individualism gener
ally. both in town and country
comparatively free play. All thu
time he kept saying it was onl!
temporary measure, an yeXpedi
emit. and that he did not admit so
cialism was beaten.
Nepmen Got Plenty Rope.
The Nepmen, or private trader
in Russia, thus received a lonI
rope, but in the end it has bee
used to strangle them. Christina
Eve of 1923 may be fixed as tn
date when the "nepmania," whic
had filled Moscow with gamblin
dens. cabarets, brothels and be
ieweled newly rich. but had ney
ertheless fulfilled Lenin's purpos
of restarting the frozen wheels Q
industry and commerce, met il
first brutal check. On that nigh
NJ. Djeriinski. who was then til
grim chief of the Russian Chek;
raided Moscow's biggest ar
BRIGHTEST cabaret and arrested
score or-more of spectators o
divers charges. 1t was Lenin
answer to the world and to HI
doubling followers.
There are no cabarets in Mo
COW now-no gambling dens, 7
brothels. And those who are le
among the Nepmen are being 81
quidated." 1t has taken yea
and has caused bitter fights in Il
Communist party-the Trotskyi
opposition, for instance, whit
had, of course, personal ground
, but really meant that Trotsky WI
trying to go too fast and do thin;
then which the Communist par
wanted and which it has subs
quently achieved to a great e
tent, but for which NJ. Stall
rightly saw the time was then n
yet ripe.
To coin a new word from an o
model, one might say there h;
now begun in Russia the "Rer
or revised economic policy, to I
place the Nep. The Nep was
pure experiment, an enforc
Jump in\the dark room from t
Communist point of view. T
!, Rep is the deliberate and console
use of the convenient features
the Nep to serve the purposes
il militant communism, which
C sumes its place as the guidil
q policy of the Soviet State.