The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-23
WE WILL BUILD SOCIALISM
IN THE SECOND FIVE
YEAR PLAN
Leading Editorial in Moscow "Prsvada" of
Jan. so


accelerated tempo OF the Five Year Plan and
the tremendous growth Of productive forces, are
literally changing the face OF the U. S. S, r.
under our very eyes.
A period of five years assumes the significance
OF an historical epoch And the Five Year Plan
is being accomplished in four years.
The foundations of the socialist economy OF
the Soviet Union were completed in three years
Of the first Five Year Plan. The second Five
Year Plan will be the period Of abolition OF
classes, the period of the construction OF d
Socialist Society.
The basic political task of the second Five
Year Plan is the final liquidation Of capitalist
clements and Of classes in general the complete
determination OF causes which tend TO create
class distinctions and exploitation, and the con-
quest of the remnants OF capitalism in the
economy and in the consciousness of the people;
the transformation Of the whole toling popula
ton of the country into conscious and active
building of a classics socialist society" From
the reports of Comrades Molotov and Kuybishey)
The socialist industry, that leading power and
basis OF the construction of Socialism, is march
ing forward with gigantic strides. Under its
mighty influence, the age old structure of the
petty and of the pettiest dismembered peasant
economy Is rapidly crurnbling. Collectivization
is growing at a rapid pace.
During the second Five Year Plan, the last
remnants of capitalist elements in our economy,
will be liqudated. The deepest roots of cap
italiSm will be torn out to the end and forever.
1.-THE Communists can express their theory in
one premise:-Abolition OF private property" was
stated by Marx and Engels in the Communist
Manifesto" that fiery document of the
international proletarian revolution. The
heroic efforts Of the working class of the Soviet
Union marching under the guidance of the,
party Of Lenin along the difficult road of re-
volutionary struggle and socialist construction.
are Transforming this theory into a victorious
reality. In our country, the private ownership
Of the means Of production is retreating irrepar-
ably into the historic past.
The material bases Of the second Five Year
Plan which will solve its economical problems
and which will eliminate the technical back
wardness Of the U. S. S r. are-the completion
OF the technical reconstruction Of the whole Of,
its economy and the transfer OF all the branches
of its economy to base Of the newest tech
nique.
In a maximum OF ten years we must traverse
that distance which separates us from the most
advanced capitalist countries-is the main task
put forward by Comrade Stain. This problem
can only be solved by an application of Boil
shevist tempos in the socialist industrialization
and by a resolute struggle for the mastery oil
the most advanced technical knowledge.
The second Five Year Plan must give a deci-
sive success along this line
Machine construction, which plays leading
role in the completion Of the technical re
construction of our national economy Is to be
increased to 8 IL times.
To produce 100 billion hloWatt-hours Of cleo
trical energy against II billion IN the last year
of the first Five Year Plan, % millions of tons
of cast IRON to mine $50 millions Of tons Of coal
against 80 millions as in 1892; to construct $3.50
thousand kilometers of new railways Such are
some of the outstanding milestones of the Dol
sheyist tempo in the second Five Year Plan Of
socialist construction. The technical level OF
the u S, S. R. will surpass that of the most adj
vanced capitalist countries, thus securing for the
Soviet Union the first place in Europe.
Having forever dispensed with the technical
backwardness Of the country, the q. S. S. R. will
finally be transformed from an importer Of
machines into an independent and extensive
producer
The unheard Of speed of the growth Of pro-
ductive forces Of the reconstructed industry
and agriculture create a base for the decisive
accelleration of the betterment Of living condi-
lions OF the toiling masses. THE SUPPLY OF
THE POPULATION WITH CONSUMERS
GOODS WILL BE INCREASED TWO TO
THREE TIMES COMPARED WITH THE LEVEL
OF 1882 This becomes particularly important
when compared with the shocking growth OF
pauperization of the toiltng masses in the lands
of The much praised" capitalist civilization,
where under the blows of the crisis, tens of
millions of workers are thrown out the streets,
doomed to a death of starvation, and where
tens of millions of small farmers are at the
deadine of poverty and want
The second Five Year Plan Will completely
change the face Of the Land of Soviets.
The full technical reconstruction of the agri-
cultural economy; the basic accomplishment OF
full collectivization and liquidation of kulaks at
the very beginning of the second Five Year
plan; the growth of large scale agricultural
undertakings, armed with the newest technical
knowledge will transform agricultural labor into
a form of industrial labor and will obliterate
the differences created by capitalism between
city and country.
The perspectives Of the second Five Year Plan
are grandose. Its tasks-enormous and males
tic. And the proletariat of the U. S. S. r. is in
possession of absolutely all the possibilities, all
the rover, all the means and all the resources
for the victorious fulfillment of this gigantic
plan of construction of a socialist society IN
that period
But il would be a grave opportunistic error to
think that victory in the second Five Year Plan
will come of itself without efforts and without
struggle and that the socialistc society Will
somehow find itself in our midst.
THE ROAD TO A CLASHES SOCIETY
rs THROUGH A BITTER CLASS STRUGGLE