The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

how effective is it? Can it be
maintained indefinitely:
REPLY: It is true that the
principal motive power of
capitalist economy is profit.
1t is true also that obtaining
profit is neither the aim nor the
motive power Of our Socialist in
dustry. What, then. is the motive
power of our industry?
First Of all the fact that the fac
tories and the workshops in the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
belong to the whole people and not
to capitalists, that the factories and
workshops are managed not by the
appointees Of capitalists, but by
representatives of the working
class; the consciousness that the
workers work, not for the capital
lists, but for their own State. for
their own class, represents an enor-
nous driving-force in the develop
ment and perfection of our indus
try. 1t must be observed that the
overwhelming majority of the fac
tory and works managers in Rus
STA are working men, appointed by
the Supreme Economic Council in
agreement with the trade unions,
and that not single factory man
ager can remain at his post con-
trary to the will of the workers of
the particular trade union. 1t must
be observed also that in every fac
tory and workshop there is fac
tory council, elected by the workers,
which controls the activities of the
management Of the particular en-
terprise. Finally, it must be OBJ
served that in every industrial en-
terprise regular production confer
ences Of workers are held, in which
all the workers employed in the
given enterprise take part, and at
which the work of the manager of
the enterprise is discussed and
criticized; the plan Of work in the
factory administration is discussed,
errors and defects are noted and
rectified through the trade unions,
through the Party, and through
the organs of the Soviet admins
tration. 1t is not difficult to I'M
derstand. therefore. that all these
circumstances radically alter the
position of the workers as we'll as
the state affairs in the various en-
terprises. While, under capitalism,
the workers regard their factory as
a prison, under the Soviet system
the workers no longer regard their
factory as a prison, but as some
thing near and dear to them and
in the development and improve
ment of which they are vitality in
terested. 1t is hardly necessary to
prove that this new attitude of the
workers toward the enterprise rep
resents a powerful driving force for
the whole of our industry. This
circumstance explains the fact that
the number Of worker inventors in
the field of technique of produc-
ton and worker organizers of in
dustry increases from day to day.
Secondly. the revenues from in
dustry in Russia are employed not
for the enrichment of individuals.
but for the further expansion of
industry, for the improvement of
the material and cultural condi-
tions Of the working class, for re-
ducing the price of industrial COM
modities necessary both for the
workers and for the peasants,
which again is the improvement of
the material conditions of the toll
ing masses. A capitalist cannot
employ his revenue for improving
the welfare of the working class.
He lives for profit; otherwise he
would not be capitalist. He OBJ
taips profit in order to invest it as
surplus capital in less developed
countries suffering from a shortage
Of capital in order to again obtain
fresh and increased profit. That is
how capital flows from the United
States to China, to Indonesia, to
South America and Europe, and
from France to the French colo
MES. and from England to the
British colonies. In the U. S. S. R.
things are altogether different, for
we neither conduct nor recognize
colonial policy. In Russia, the
revenues from industry would re-
main in the country and are en-