The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-27

the contradictions while he remains
within the limitations of capitalist
property relations. Capitalist econ
omy and planned economy are fun
damentally in contradiction and
mutually exclusive.
This explains why all the furore
about planning, all the Brain
Trusts, all the State Planning Com
missions at work throughout the
United States, all the books about
planning, all the research of the
higher institutions of learning-are
all so singularly barren of results.
1t is not because all these brains
are of inferior quality, but because
they have been given the impos-
sible task of reconciling the ire
concilable.
In contrast with this barren chat
ter about a planned economy in the
United States, stands the expert
ence of scientific planning and the
execution of these plans, in the So
Wet Union. The first Five-Year
Plan was really carried out; not
only that, it was exceeded. The sec
ond Five-Year Plan is already
bringing backward" Russia up to
the front ranks Of all industrial ma
tons. There, alone of all countries,
there is no crisis. There alone all
productive forces are fully utilized;
there alone, therefore, do these pro-
ductive forces groW-and at rate
never before seen in the world.
The planned economy of the So
Wet Union is not some accidental
discovery nor is it the result of ma
tional peculiarities, of a momentary
situation. 1t is the direct outcome
of the best, most scientific thought
of mankind. 1t was clearly projected
as long ago as 1S48. 1t is in the
direct line of development from the
Communist Manifesto, written by
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 1t
was further developed by v. I.
Lenin and the modern Communist
Party (Bolsheviks), and realized it
self in the planned economy of the
Soviet Union. lie demonstrated its
independence and virility by pro-
crossing even more repidly, under
the guiding hand of Joseph Stain,
during the period when the CAPT
talist world fell into deepest crisis.
Marxist Analysis of Crises
Surely it would seem that seri-
Gus approach to the problems of a
planned economy would require
mastery of those scientific theories
which have actually produced the
only example known to history.
Marx and Engels, as far back as
1848, foresaw the whole course OF
capitalism. The Communist Mani
festo, written then, reads like con-
temporary description Of the present
crisis. Allow me to quote:
Society suddenly finds itself put
back into a state Of elementary
barbarism; it appears as if fam
inc, universal war of devasta-
ton, had cut off the supply of
every means of subsistence: in
dustry and commerce seem to be
destroyed; and why? Because
there is too much civilization, too
much means of subsistence, too
much industry, too much COM
merce. The productive forces at
the disposal of society no longer
tend to further the development
of bourgeois property; on the con-
trary, they have become too
powerful for these conditions by
which they are confined, and as
soon as they overcome these limi-
tations, they bring disorder into
the whole Of bourgeois society,
endanger the existence of bour-
geois property. The conditions of
bourgeois society are too narrow
to comprise the wealth created by
them"
Exemplified Today
Capitalist crisis, thus described in
1848 by Marx and Engeis, finds its
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condition of the capitalist world. 1t
can be solved only by destruction
and violence. If the conditions of
bourgeois property are to be main
tanned, this can only be accom-
plished by the destruction of the
excess wealth and productive forces,
and the most violent suppression of
the suffering masses who have no
interest in such property. If the
productive forces and accumulated
wealth Of society are to be preserved
and further developed, this can only
be accomplished by the destruction
of bourgeois property rights, and of
the institutions by which they are
maintained, with the necessary ac-
compartment of suppression Of the
exploiting minority and their agents.
Thus, some form of violence and
destruction are unavoidable. This is
not something to be chosen or re-