The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29

the ranks of the Communist Party is still felt al
though the working class has strengthened its
position enormously The right and left deva-
tons have not yet died out, either, although they
are now much more anaenic than ever and have
to parade under the guise of loyalty" to the
line of the Party.
The present groups are identified with the
names of Syrtzov (right) and Lominadze Qeft)
and their arguments (properly to be called
laments) are a feeble echo of the arguments
of their elders in anti-Party outcries The two
groups are combined in bloc, the Lominadze-
opportunists accepting" the economic analysis
of the Syrtzov opportunists, and the Syrtzov OPP
portunists subscribing to the Characterization
of the Party by the Lominadze opportunists
They swear" loyalty, but at the same time they
maintain underground connections which. insig-
nificant as they may be, have aroused the scorn
and indignation of the largest strata of Soviet
workers who call these clements 'double-hand-
ed"
What are their arguments? You listen to them
and you seem to hear voices of factions long
dead and buried Moreover, there is touching
harmony between these laments and the Men
shevk declarations the world over. You listen
to Syrtzoy and you seem to hear Abramovitch;
Lominadze speaks and his voice sounds strangely
like that of Kautsky.
We are moving too fast say the twin brothers
Our tempo is not in accord with reality. We
are threatened with collapse" We must slow
down to a more realistic tempo" We are un-
able to master the economic situation. This is
proclaimed in the face of a "a per cent increase
in industrial production in 192s-29 and of Is per
cent in l929-30 as against the originally planned
increase of 21.4 and 1873 per cent respectively
This is proclaimed in the face of quick and
Of hro hot
threaten the weakers spots of the economic front
like the production of mean and dairy prod
ucts). And does it not repeat in a somewhat
modtied from the capitalist Menshevik prop
uganda about the "unreality" and the Imminent
collapse" of the Five-Year Plan?
The Party line ties up and paralyzes the Gre
ative Initiative of the working masses" say the
twins. This is news to the Soviet workers whose
unprecedented economic advances have only been
made possible by powerful mass initiative from
below, by release of the creative energies of
the workers and peasants in every field of ac-
tivlty. 1t is news to the class conscious workers
III the capitalist countries who know that only
the constructive self-critcism. the Socialist ri
valry and the direct attack of the workers upon
all difficulties have made it possible to reach
the present economic level. But it is music to
the ears of the bourgeoisie. Is spreads the vici-
Gus bourgeois lie about the workers in the US
SIR. being slaves" of an "autocratic ruler"
about their being driven like cattle.
The collec!ivization of the farms is done "n
a mechanical way says the right-"left" bloc,
ignoring the fact that there has been veritable
landslide in favor of collectivizaton that already
in 1880 the collective farms embraced 3SOO00O9
hectares OF land while according to the original
Flve-Year Plan they were to embrace 2o60O000
by 1928. 1t is ridiculous to speak of mechani-
cal compulsion in a vast movement carried out
by scores of millions of peasants. But it serves
the purpose of the kulaks and the foreign bour-
geosie who are interested to dscredit the move
ment
A cry of characterization" has been raised
by the opportunist alliance "Bureaucratism that
cries to heaven; irresponsible behavior; isolation
from the masses; feudal-segneuria1 attitude to-
wards the needs and interests of the workers
and peasants; an ignoring and distorting of the
directives of the Party, and most brazen OPP
portunism." This is how the twins characterize
the Soviet State apparatus. Where have we heard
similar summary accusations? Oh, yes, it was
Trotsky who six years ago spoke about a dan
gerous bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet
apparatus. Since then Trotsky has gone down
while the Soviet State, continuously improving
its own organization is marching from one So
cialist victory to the other.
show "a very alarming situation" chant the
twin brothers, here, too, repeating the old Trot-
sky lamentations. The fact is that real wages
are now about ITS per cent of the pre-war wages
and are continuously rising, While the working
day Is being reduced to hours and the week to
fve-days. The further realization of the Five
Year Plan will assure further improvements in
the life OF the working masses. The blocs &C
cusation is slanderous distortion of the truth,
yet it is in unison with the bourgeois SANDER
about the Starvation of the Soviet workers.
1t is good counter revolutionary propaganda.
ave are way below the tasks advanced by
life ITSELF declare the double handed predicting
that the future holds only defeats, breaches
gloom. But even here they only echo voices
long dead Didn't the opportunist zinoviev-
Trotsky bloc in 1927 assert that the Party was
mo more Party of the working class but a
party of "Nepmen. kulaks and bureaucrats" lead
ing to Thermidore j. e., to the defeat of the Rev
olution? Today, the Nepmen have been almost
wiped out; the Kulaks are being de-
prived Of their base: bureaucratism is success
fully fought against and the Party is leading
the country towards Socialism with seven-league
boots
Every single utterance of the bloc gives ex-
preston to bourgeois hopes, wishes, views, and is
intended to divert the Party from its Communist
course. The onslaught of the Party upon the last
strongholds of capitalism in USSR. has nten-
sif1ed the class struggle. The class-enemies leave
no stone unturned as revealed most clearly by |
the trial of the unter-revolutionary engineers.
The workers need of unity cohesion, faith in the |