The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
An Important Correction

S.U. The program of the Second
Five-Year Plan sets the aim Of
establishing a classics Socialist
society" This programmatic state
ment declares unequivocally, on the
basis Of the analysis of the Boil
shevik rate of Socialist construction
in the U.S.SR., that the Second
Five-Year Plan sets itself as its
basic political task the final liquida-
ton of classes. This declaration,
which was formulated in the Reso-
luton of the Seventeenth Congress
of the C.P.S.U., has nothing in COM
mon with such quibblings as
towards" or mot" a classics So
ciety.
1t is understood that, in speak
ing of the classics Socialist So
eiety which is the objective of the
Second Five Year Plan, Marxism-
Leninism recognizes in that attain
ment the first stage of Commu-
nism, from which the development
will proceed toward the higher
stage, the Communist society, in
which the State will have COM
pletely withered away.
The answer presumes to base
itself on Comrade Stains report
to the Seventeenth Congress of the
4 CP.S.U. It cites from the report:
THE Seventeenth Party Conference
declared that we are marching
towards classics Socialist socie "
From this quotation, the answer
seeks to gain support for its theory
of building towards, and not build
ing a classics, Socialist society. But
anyone can see that in the words
we are marching towards class
/ less. Socialist society" Comrade
Stain declared that we are now
building a classics Socialist society,
that we are marching towards an
objective, the objective Of the Sec
ond Five-Year Plan.
TOR the other alternative, that the
L Second Five Year Plan sets out
to build a Socialist society but
not a classics one" the answer
brings as an argument, I'VE say
/ that we have Socialism in the Soviet
Union, but not classics Socialism
Again Stain is dragged in to
support" an argument Of political
illiteracy. The answer quotes from
Comrade Stains report to the Sew
enteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.;
ut will be seen that We have put
an end to the capitalist elements
in industry and that the Socialist
system is now the sole and monopo-
list system in our industry"
According to this, reasons the
answer, since Stain speaks of the
Socialist" system and not of the
classics, Socialist system, it would
seem that Stain agrees that the
political task of the Second Five
Year Plan is to build Socialism.
but not a classics, Socialist society.
To say the least, the answer lost all
sense of time and lenses. No one in
his senses claims that there is a
classics society in the Soviet Union
now. 1t is obvious that if we had
now a classics Socialist system in
the Soviet Union, we would need no
Second Five-Year Plan to make
such a system its objective.
THE anwer is based not on the
L principles of Lenin and Stain,
but on theories" opposing those
principles. 1t represents, in essence,
a capitulation to the Trotskyist
denial of the possibility of Socialist
construction in the Soviet Union
and of developing that construction
through the Second Five-Year Plan
20 the classics, Socialist stage.
1t was for this reason that the
{ answer, as stated above, was re-
, jected by us; and its accidental puo-
, LEGATION in this column is highly
to be regretted. In taking this oc-
casion to correct the political error,
we criticize ourselves for not hav-
ing exercised greater care to avoid
such a mishap.
We have presented on this oc-
casion our criticism of the answer
exclusively. There still remains the
necessary reply to the original oues-
ton. Due to lack of space, We deem
it advisable, in order to answer the
question thoroughly, to postpone the
discussion for another issue in the
very near future.-Ed.