The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17


by the consumption through capitalists and
other non-productive elements capitalism tries
to conquer the worlds markets. Out of the
sale of this surplus the capitalists accumulate
new capital. The desire to conquer new worlds
for the profitable investment of this new capt.
tai drives world capitalism into new imperialist
wars.
The Soviet Union is socialist country It
does not produce commodities. Though the
exchange of products still takes place in the
form of buying and selling, yet the social re-
lationships under which this buying and SELL
ing takes place have completely changed.
Above all there exists workers government
in the Soviet Union. While the capitalist gov
ernments enforce against the workers CAPT
talism's supreme law, the right to make profit,
the workers government in the Soviet Union
enforces against the capitalists labor's su-
preme law-the right to live in accordance
with the capacity of the productive forces and
in accordance with the service rendered to
society.
Production in the Soviet Union is for use,
not for profit. This production therefore aims
to cover the needs of the urban and rural mas
ses. Surplus is only produced to facilitate
further production, to build new factories, to
erect new electric power stations, to open new
mines, etc. The building of new factories, the
erection of new power stations, the opening of
new mines of course does lead to an increase of
production. This increase however is not
turned into profit but goes back to the work
ers in form of raised living and working STAN
dards. The new factories, ETC., therefore rep
resenta fundamentally different phenomenon
from capitalist accumulation of private wealth.
They represent socialist accumulation. They
are not turned into new instruments of ex-
ploitation but into new and welcome tools for
easier and more abundant production of ne
cessities Under socialism in the Soviet Union
the actual surplus production is limited to the
needs of the maintenance and of the expan-
sion of the means of production.
Some of these necessary means of produc-
ton, machinery, raw materials, ETC., are Sc
cured from other countries until home pro-
duction is developed enough to make the So
cialist economy of the Soviets more self-suffi-
cient. The industrialization plan contained in
the Five Year Plan serves this aim.
To buy in foreign countries the Soviets must
also sell The value of all imports must be
covered in exchange by exports of similar
value; in plain words the imports must be paic
for in exports. Soviet exports therefore are
not designed to compete capitalism out of ex
istences but to pay for Soviet imports. This
is especially important because the industrial
ization of the Soviet Union takes place under
entirely different conditions than the indus
trial development of capitalism. Capitalist
industrialization had access to an extensive
system of loans. Socialist construction in the
USSR on the other hand depends entirely or
| its immediate socialist accumulation.
Soviet exports in the main serve the pur.
pose of paying for their necessary imports
The propaganda of the Five Year Plan being
preparation to compete capitalism out of ex-
istence is therefore just another contribution
to the holy war myth. The Soviet Union in
fact is endeavoring constantly to increase its
economic independence from capitalist coun-
tries. 1t does not want to depend for its ne
cessary machinery and raw material upon the
capitalists The Five Year Plan therefore lays
special emphasis on industrialzation. AS the
building of socialism advances its needs for
imports will decrease With the decrease OF
it's imports it's exports likewise will decrease
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