The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28

national economy can talk like this
Probability must not be considered
from the point OF view of the small shop
keeper, from the point of view of the
moment. Probability must be considered
from the standpoint of the national
economy in general, on the average of
several years. Only such standpoint
can really be described as a feminist
standpoint, is really Marxist standpoint.
And this standpoint is obligatory not
only in regard to industry, but also to
still greater extent in regard to the COL
lective farms and Soviet farms Just
think. In about three years we have
established over 100000 collective farms
and about 5000 Soviet farms. That is to
say, we have created completely new
giant undertakings which possess the
same Importance for agriculture as the
factories and works for industry Name
me a country which could create within
three years not 205,000 new giant under
takings, but only $4,000 such undertake
ings. You cannot name such a country,
and there does not exist such country.
And we created 205,O00 new under
takings in agriculture But we find that
there are people in the world who de-
AiftllU bilSt llleSe UNDERTAKINGS SIldu I'LL
mediately pay, and if they do not pay at
once they must be destroyed and dis
solved.
is it not clear that these more or less
singular people are longing for the 1au-
relS of Herostrat? When / speak of the
unprofitability Of the collective and So
Wet farms I do not by any means Wish
IN " hn uho of
profitable. Quite the contrary 1t is known
to all that there are now already num-
Der of very profitable collective and So
Wet farms. We possess thousands of COL
1ective farms, dozens of Soviet farms,
which are now already on a sound paying
basis. These collective farms and Soviet
farms are the pride of our Party, the
pride of the Soviet power. The collective
farms and Soviet farms are of course not
everywhere alike Some of them are old,
some new and some quite new. They are
still weak not yet finally shaped eco
nomic organisms. In their organizational
development they passathrough about the
same period as did our factories and
workshops in the year 1920-21. 1t is I'M
derstandable that in the majority they
cannot yet be profitable, but that within
two to three years they will be just as
piOlitdDIe DIS our IdCJOrleS ana enCer-
prises after 1921; of that there can be
no doubt. To refuse them help and sup
port because all of them are not yet
profitable would be the greatest crime
against the working class and the peas
antry. Only enemies of the people, coun-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, can speak of the use
lessness of the collective and Soviet
farms.
In realizing the Five-Year Plan of ag-
riculture the Party carried out collec-
Invitation at an accelerated pace. Did the
Party act correctly when it carried out
the policy OF accelerated tempo OF collec-
Invitation? Yes, absolutely correctly. AL
though here various displays of passions
were not avoided. In carrying out the
policy of liquidating the kulakS as a class
and clearing out the nests of kulaks, the
Party could not remain standing half
way. 1t had to carry out the work to the
end. Making use. on the one hand, of
the possession Of tractors and agricul-
tural machines and, on the other hand,
of the absence Of private property in
land the Party had every possibility of
forcing the co,lectivization of agriculture.
And in this sphere it really achieved the
very greatest success, for it surpassed the
Five-Year Plan Of collectivization three
fold.
Does this mean that we must carry out
the policy of the forced tempo of collec-
Invitation also in the period of the Sec
ond Five Year Plan? No, it does not mean
this. The fact is, we have in the main
already concluded the collectivization of
the most important regions Of the Soviet
Union. In this sphere we have done even
more than could be expected. And we
have not only concluded the main COL
lectivization. We have succeeded in get
ting the great majority Of the peasantry
to realize that tire collective farm is the
most, acceptable form Of economy. That
is an enormous achievement. For the col