The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-10

1zlnS Lne opportunity 10 exploit all
the advantages of planned social
list economy, the US.SR. in the
minimum historical period of time
will "catch up and overtake" the
advanced capitalist countries. The
kulak, liquidated as a class, has
already answered Lenin's historic
question: who will beat whom?"
THE year 1886 will witness the
L complete INFLAMMATION of farm
ing. BY the first half of the Sec
ond Five-Year Plan the US.SR.
will overtake the United States
level of grain production, will catch
up with the total production of
technical cultures in the U.S.A.
BY the end of the second Five
Year Plan the U.SSR. will over
take the United States in the
sphere of cattle breeding.
BY the end of the second Five
Year Plan the U.S.S.R. will occupy
the first place in the world for
almost all branches of agricultural
industry.
The average consumption of
foodstuffs per capita in the US.
S.R. will leave the average con-
sumption of foodstuffs per capita
in the capitalist world far behind.
WHAT CAPITALISM
CANNOT DO
Half Of mankind is engaged in
agriculture and has, since the be-
ginning OF civilization, existed in a
condition of savagery and barbar-
ity. Marx commented upon the
"idiocy of village life" Under cap
italism there is no way out of this
Savagery and barbarity, for capt.
alism cannot destroy private own
ership of the. means of production
and of land, cannot completely
substitute large-scale for small
scale production, and, moreover, in
the last days Of it's decay, lauds
the ideal small farm; capitalism
cannot unite industry and agricul-
ture except under the iron heel
Of finance capital; the Scissors"
cuts capitalism's own throat, in
tensifies its contradictions, hastens
the moment of its overthrow by
cementing the alliance of the
workers and farmers in joint strug-
gless. But the way out of the
poverty, savagery, and barbarity of
the agrarian population can be
found and is being operated in
the U.S.SR.
"Only a society which is cap
able Of bringing into harmonious
movement its productive forces,
according to unified, common
plan, will be in a position to
distribute them so that it will be
possible to spread the large scale
production equitably throughout
the land in complete correspond
o,..2e with its own development
and the safeguarding and devel-
oping Of other elements of pro-
duction.' r. .s~s'
THE two largest agricultural prod
! ucing countries of the globe
present themselves for contrast as
two different worlds, two different
soils, almost. In the U.S.A., 1920
marked the beginning of a chronic
agrariat1 crisis. In the U.S.SR.
1920 was the beginning of progress
sive Socialist construction. 1920 in
the US.A. witnesses the stock
market crash, the advent Of world
economic crisis which deepens and
is in turn deepened by the chronic
agrarian crisis. 1929 in the us.
SIR. is the year of a victory of
world historical Importance" the
year when millions of peasants
moulted from their individualist
shells and flowed in a living stream
into collectives. Dramatically OPP
posite from world capitalism, the
industrial successes furthered and
in turn were furthered by the
agrarian successes. In 1929, when
millions went in rags, southern
town erected a monument to the
boil weeHl. because, it had destroy
ed part of the cotton crop; but
in the U.S.S.R., the "udarnik," the
shock-brigader, who fights on the
front of efficient and increasing
production. is the proletarian hero.
The slogan capitalist anarchy is
cut the surplus: the long list of
acts Of capitalist criminal vandaI-
ism Is known 10 an. The most
rtdicsAous pgppoNtions become the