The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-26


exist to the same extent as in the Northern
parts of the grain-importing districts We
know that in numerous districts of Turkistan
attempts were made to "catch up and pass"
the advanced districts of the Soviet Union by
threats of military force; that the peasants
who do not for the present wish to enter the
collective farms are to be deprived of the use
of irrigation works and their supplies of in
dustrial goods cut off.
What has this Sergeant-major policy in
common with the policy of the Party, which
is based upon the voluntary principle and
takes into account the local peculiarites in
building up collective farms? 1t is clear that
they have had and cannot have anything in
common. Who benefits by such distortions, by
such characterization of the collective econ
omy movement such unworthy threats to the
peasants? Only our enemes! Whittier can
these distortions lead? To strengthening our
enemies and discrediting the idea of the col
lective economy movement. Is it not clear
that the originators of these distortions, who
consider themselves to be radical" are in
fact bringing grist to the mill of Right OPP
portunism?
Secondly, one of the greatest merits of the
political strategy of our Party consists in the
circumstance that it knows how at any given
moment, to ascertain the most important link
of the movement, to seize it and then at the
same time to move all links of the chain for
a common aim, the solution of a task Can
we say that the Party has already ascertained
the decisive link in the system of building up
collective economy? But We can and must do
this, Where is the deciding link to be found?
Perchance in the societies for common cultiva-
ton of the soil? No.
Common cultivation of the soil without So
cialization of the means of production is
stage of the collective economy movement
which is already passed. Perhaps in the agri-
cultural commune? No, not in the commune
The communes are at present still isolated
phenomena in the collective economy move
ment. For the agricultural commune as the
predominating form of Specialization not only
of the whole production but also of distribu-
ton, conditions are not yet ripe.
The deciding link of the collective economy
movement, its present predominating form, on
to which one must now hold, is the agrcul-
tural artel. In the agricultural artel the means
of production are mainly socialized in the
grain production: labor, use of the soil, ma
chimes, and other implements, work beasts,
farm buildings.
What are not socialized are, the small vege-
table allotments and gardens, the dwelling
goats, of the poultry etc.
The artel is the determining link of the COL
lective economy movement because it repre-
sents the most practicable form for solving the
grain problem The grain problem again is
the determining link in the system of the
whole agriculture, because without its solu-
ton neither the problem of cattle breeding
nor the problem of economic and similar
plants as the chief material of industry
can be solved. Hence the agricultural artel
is at present the most important link in the
system of the collective economy movement.
1t is upon this that the model statute" of
the collective farms, the final text of which is
now being published, is based 1t is from
this standpoint that Party and Soviet
functionaries must proceed. One of their du-
ties consists in studying the nature of the
statute, and carrying it out completely.
This is the standpoint of the Party at the
present moment. Can we say that this stand
point of the Party is being realized without
infringements and distortions? Unfortunately
no. You are probably aware that in a number
of districts of the Soviet Union where the
fight for the existence of the collective farms
is not by long way at an end and where
the artels are not yet consolidated, attempts
are being made to go beyond the limits of the
artel and to spring Immediately over to the
agricultural commune. The artel is not yet
consolidated, but we are already "socializing"
the dwelling houses, the small cattle and the
poultry, and at the same time this "socializa-
ton" is degenerating into bureaucratic paper
DEGREES, because the conditions which render
such specialization necessary do not yet OBJ
TAIN
One would think that the grain problem on
the collective farms has been already solved,
that it represents an already past stage, that
the chief task at the present moment is not
the solution of the grain problem but the pro-
blem of cattle and poultry breeding But who
benefits by this crazy "work" of Juggling
about with the different forms of the collective
economy movement? To upset the collectively
inclined peasant by socializing the dwelling
houses, the whole of the milk cows, the small
cattle and poultry at time when the artel
form of collective farms is not yet CONSOLE
dated! Is it not clear that such policy can
be useful and welcome only to our sworn enc
mics?
One of the jealous socializers even went so
lar that he issued an order to the arte in
which he prescribed: "to register within three
days all stocks of poultry" to lay down the
duties of the special commanders" for the
registration and supervisors "to occupy the
key positions in the arte;" "to conduct the
socialist fight without abandoning the posts"
and certainly to take the whole arte firmly
in hand. What is that? policy of leading
the collective farm or policy of destroying
and discrediting it? | do not speak at all of
those-beg pardon-"revoutionarie who be.
gin the organization of the artel by removing
the bells from the steeple. Just imagine how