The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-16

a lot of bad planning, no planned e
system.
Capitalism can plan new attacks
on the working class, but not a way
out of the crisis" Browder said.
Using the method of MarXist-
feminist analysis, the Communist
leader tore through Soule's neatly
spun theories and laid bare their
contradictions and class origin. So
complete and convincing were Brow
der's arguments that in his final
rebuttal Soule, who is probably the
leading bourgeois liberal economist
in the country, was compelled to
admit that he found it difficult to
find any flaws in Browder's con-
tentions. The rebuttal was in fact
retreat.
Admits HoOver's Planning FlOpped
The debate was held under the
auspices of the American Youth Fed
GRAFTON. William L. Num-, professor
of economics at Dana University,
was chairman.
Soule began by assuring his au-
dience that he was not defending
capitalism nor trying to save it. He
then proceeded to speak approvingly
of the planning" schemes designed
to save capitalism, though he adj
mitted that they were not in the
interests of the working masses. The
Hoover administration has adopted
economic planning, he said, and then
conceded that all HooVer's attempts
at planning had turned out badly.
AS examples of economic planning,
he cited the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, which has given mil
lions to the banks, railroads and
other corporations, and Roosevelt
domestic allotment plan TO raise
farm prices, which Soule declared
was based, on the whole, on a fairly
sound economic philosophy"
In his reply Browder restated the
subject of the debate to read: us
Planned Economy Possible under
Capitalism" He showed that the
r. F.. G. was effective not as a
means to rehabilitate the capitalist
system, but merely as an emergency
prop to keep the entire structure
from collapsing. Concerning Roose-
yelt's domestic allotment plan, which
is similar to the Jones parity plan"
bill, just passed by the House, Brow
der said:
ut proposes a state subsidy on
condition that the farmer reduce his
Tn nft
masses are to pay the farmer double
price on condition that the farmer
produce less of what the masses con-
sumo! This is the planning of
economic suicide, of society in
decay; furthermore, it will not post
pone the collapse, but hasten it and
make the catastrophe deeper"
Soule, in typical liberal fashion,
tried to minimize the true meaning
of capitalist planning as attacks on
the working-class and attempts to
throw the whole burden of the crisis
on the backs of the toilers. On the
contrary, he pictured capitalist plan
ming as an active factor in changing
capitalism" and bringing about
Socialism.
Cites Pinchot Plan
On this point Browder cited the
plan of Governor Pinehot of Penn
sylyania to abolish cash relief and
substitute planned distribution oil
food by the state. Browder exposed
the true character of this plan by
pointing out that in this way the
Pennsylvania capitalists and their
state government will be able to cut
the cost of relief from $1.10 per per-
son per week to Al cents a week for
adults and q cents for children.
Browder showed that the capitalist
kind of planning" is not bringing
us nearer to Socialism Except in the
sense that it is taking us nearer to
the catastrophe collapse, out of the
ruins of which will arise the planned
economy of the workers"
He declared that only the workers
can provide the force capable of real
planning, and cited the successful
planned economy of the Soviet Union.
He pointed to the National Hunger
March, which he described as plan
ned action, ian exhibition OF organi-
cation and discipline as has rarely
been seen in this country"
Basic Contradiction Prevents
Planning
BroWder touched the core of the
problem when he declared:
1.-THE basic contradiction of cap
italism, private property in the
means of production, which splits up
society into the two chief opposing
classes, renders futile all efforts to