The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13
By MAX BEDACHT.
". The Five Year Plan.

The Five Year Plan is sectional plan OF
minimum accomplishments jim the building
Of socialism Within five years it provides
fora fixed minimum advance in the de-
veopment of industry, in the development
of electric power and of means of transpor-
tation; it demands a fixed minimum of adj
vance in specialization of all production in
Guiding agricultural, a minimum of advance
of the living and cultural standards of the
toiling Russian masses, and last but not
least, minimum accomplishment in the
dissolution of the capitalist class.
y The hysteric rawlings of the American
capitalists about the Five Year Plan and
the echoes of these rawlings in the New York
Evening Post and other capitalist papers
cancbe understood only in the light of these
collective aims of the Plan. Mere industrial
development of Russia could never result in
such universal capitalist antagonism. The
"crime supreme" of the Soviets is that they
carry through this industrial development
without and even against the capitalist GLASS;
The capitalists Of the world desire nothing
more than the development of Russian in
dustries-for their private profits; but they
abhor, denounce, condemn and anathemize
industrial development of Russia in the in
terests of the Russian masses. However,
Hoover and Wolll, Fish and Hillquit, the
New York Evening Post and Chicago
Tribune notwithstanding, the Soviets pro-
coed successfully with the building of So
cialism on the basis of the Five Year Plan
-, Capitalism Cannot Plan It's Economy
Although the Five Year Plan is prinar-
lily a series of economic measures, yet its
major import is political. It's very starting
point is planned economy. Planned eco
nonfy is impossible under capitalism.
Planned economy bases itself on an accurate
and detailed analysis Of the co-relative facts
and factors of public needs and the means
to supply these needs. Planned economy
Systematically develops public needs as well
as the means to supply them Capitalism
cannot fulfill any of the two provisions of
planned economy. 1t cannot ascertain pub
lie needs. Capitalist commodity production
isanet based on needs; it is only concerned
With the ability to buy. Capitalist COM
modify production planned on the basis of
public needs would lead to hopeless over
PRODUCTION; those that have the greatest
needs usually have the least ability to buy;
and capitalism does not care for the needs
of anyone who is unable to pay.
- But capitalism is also unable to distribute
production Systematically. Systematic or
ganization of production means the assign
ment of definite production quotas to every
factory, workshop or mine; it means the
elimination Of small and inefficient and the
favoring of the big, modern and efficient
establishments. Such distribution of pro-
daction by a capitalist government would
violate the inviolable rule of American capt.
talism that business must go into the gov
eminent, but that under no conditions must
government go into business. 1t would also
violate the blessed capitalist individualism
and would kill the doubly blessed capitalist
initiative; it would result in a cat-and-dog
fight between the capitalists themselves.
1.-The Five Year Plan therefore presupposes
the political fact of workers government.
ali the ink spilled by liberal capitalist
economists about the advisability of adopt
ing five year or any other plan for CAPT
talist economy in America to overcome the
present crisis, is therefore just so much
waste Of ink.
@ Five Year Plan Builds Socialism.
90 Starting from the political premise of
workers government, the Five Year Plan
proceeds to its aim: Socialism. To achieve
this aim it must not only overcome the ply
steal resistance of the remnants of capitalist
elements in Russia, the NEP-men and the
'Kulaks, but it must also overcome the men,
tai resistance of large masses of poor peas
antry. These poor peasants are individual
ists--according to the capitalists the peas
ants are natural and therefore incurable
2ndividualists. However, their individualism
Is only the reflection of the primitive in
dividual tools with which they till their tiny
parcels of land It is not the natural in
dividualism' of the peasant that erected the
fence around his small holding. 1t is the
primitive individual farm implement; it is
this implement which can only be used on
SMALL parcels of land, together with the
fence around his small parcel of land that
maintained the individualism Of the peas
ant. The tractor, the gang-plow the cult