The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02

before the october revolution They cannot for
get what they were under the rule Of the bour-
goisie and OF the landowners that they were
threatened with beatngs by the police officers
and the provincial officials and that they were
frequently in the clutches OF the priests and other
spiritual fathers" The peasant who compared
his situation with the state Of the haH-staryed
workers and the conditions Of living OF the I'M
employed under the rule Of capital, and saw no
way OF improving his situation in life, chung to
his small bit of property. and on this basis there
arose the powerful habits Of the small property
owner.
In the period Of the second Five-Year Plan
the whole OF the working masses Of the village
will be included in the socialist transformation
on the basis Of collectivization and highly de-
veloped machine technique This cannot take
place smoothly and automatically; it can proceed
only in hard struggle against the remnants OF
capitalism in the village, only in the fight for the
organizational economic consolidation OF the col
lective farms, and thereby in the fight for the
transformation OF the small property-owner Of
yesterday and the collective peasant of today and
tomorrow into conscious and active builders Of
Socialism.
There will still be vacillations among the masses
of the peasants: they are unavoidable at various
moments and in various spheres. These vacil-
lations will become particularly noticeable where
our work is weak and where, however, the kulak
and the bourgeois elements are active.
There is no need to point out that the present
collective peasantS-and in the next few years
the great mass of them-are no longer the old
peasants, the individual peasants Of the pre-
revolutionary period. In the years of the re-
volution and especially in the years of the rapid
development of complete collectivization pro-
found changes have taken place in the pessantry.
The peasant has become quite another man.
From an ignorant, backward, taciturn drudge h3
has become an active builder, active collective
farmer. Upon this basis, the ranks OF active and
conscious builders of Socialism in the village
have grown SO rapidly that one say with
conviction that in the second five years the
whole of the working masses Of the peasantry
will be organized in collective FARMS and thereby
end will be put to the rule of small property
in the village which has obtained for centuries
Completely to abolish the capitalist elements in
the village means to carry out complete collec-
Invitation This can be accomplished only in an
memorable fight against the kulaks and in the
fight for the socialist re-education of the masses
of collective peasants, for the Strengthening of
proletaran discipline on the collective farms for
the decisive Improvement of the organization OF
the work of collective peasants. The organiza-
ton OF this struggle under the leadership of the
Communist Party is Our chief work in the vii
lage. The result of the successful fight under
this banner will be the abolition not only OF the
capitalist elements but also of small property
economy in the village. This also means that
we faced with the task OF aboshing the
capitalist elements and classes generally
Our workers and our collective peasants are
already, for the greater part in the ranks of the
active builders OF Socialism. The task OF COM
pletey abolishing the capitalist elements and
classes tn general is at the same time the task
OF converting the whole Of the working population
of the country into conscious and active builders
Of the Classics socialist society The realization
OF the task of creating a classless society in the
! second FiVe-Year-Plan is becoming practical
task. 1t Us arising out of the successes of So
ctslist construction ALREADY achieved and out Of
the totshty Of the tes,s Of building up Socialism
laid down b the second Five xAer-r!zn