Evening star., 1961-10-18

COMMUNISTS
Khrushchev Pledges to Outstrip U. s..
In Living Standards, End Soviet Want
Continued From First Page

COuIluue0 FROM E1fSL rage
ago. workers real wages have
risen 4s0 per cent and the real
incomes of the peasants have
risen more than 500 per cent.
Mr.. Khrushchev listed three
historical factors Of the goth
century:
THE formation of the world
socialist system is the principal
result Of the progressive deyel-
opment of society in our epoch,'
he declared.
'"The crumbling Of the colo
NAL system is the second in his
torical significance among the
results of world development.
''The third result of world
development is an acute all
around weakening of capital
ism and a fresh sharpening Of
its general crisis"
The party program before
the Congress was published
July 80, and many WeSterners
Immediately called it a pie-in-
the-sky scheme.
With a target date Of 1880.
it calls for free rent, medical
care, education, utilities, local
transportation and factory
lunches by then.
It also pledges to overtake
the United States in per capita
production. to maintain peace
full coexistence between social
ist and capitalist states, to sup
port independence movements
throughout the world and to
keep Soviet military forces at
top efficiency.
Sees Capitalistic Conflict
American capitalism has
passed its prime and is declin-
ing" Mr.. Khrushchev declared,
asserting that the American
financial oligarchy" does not
have the strength or the means
to implement its claims Ito |
the role of savior of capitalism
and it's claims to world domi-
nation"
The Premier said two inter-
twining trends are operating
in the "imperialist camp: A
trend toward joining all forces
against socialism. and a trend
toward mounting rivalry be
tween the imperialist powers
and the other countries of the
capitalist world"
The United States has not
succeeded and will not succeed
in overcoming the latter trend"
Mr.. Khrushchev asserted.
He charged that imperialism .
Is compelling mankind to spend
at least 500 billion annually
for military purposes.
II only 20 per cent Of that
Bum we're spent annually on
helping the Underdeveloped |
countries. he continued, power
stations could be built to pro-
duce 230 million kilowatts, steel
FORKS could be built to produce ,
as million tons a year. 100
n iMon hectares t247 million
acie go could be irrigated and
many other big things could
be done to improve the lives
Of the peoples. IA
"All this demonstrates once J,
again how urgent the struggle
for disarmament Is to all the
peoples" Mr.. Khrushchev said. /
Turning to the new party
program, Mr.. Khrushchev said
1t was a concrete. scientifically
motivated program for the
building Of communism. mark !
ing a new stage in the de-
velopment of the revolutionary
theory Of Marx, Engels and
Lenin. 4;
He boasted that communism
no longer has to contend with
capitalist encirclement but
rather is being built runder the
conditions created by the ex-
istence Of a world socialist
system, the increasing suprem-
acy Of the socialist forces over
those of imperialism, of the
forces Of peace over those of
war"
Soviet Communist in 20 Years
Within 20 years, Mr.. Khru-
shchev asserted. "a Communist
society will be in the main built
in the USSR." 4
He compared the three pro-
grams put forward by the
Soviet Communist Party in its
life to a three-stage rocket.
The first stage. he said.
wrested Russia away from the
capitalist world. The second
propelled it to socialism, and
the third is TO place it in the
orbit of communism.
The third party program
ushers in a period when all the
difficulties and hardships borne
by the Soviet people in the
name Of its great cause will be
rewarded a hundredfold," Mr.. /
Khrushchev declared.
once the Soviet Union will
have become the first industrial
power" he continued, "once
the socialist system will have
fully become the decisive factor
of world development ond once
the peace forces the world over
will have grown still greater,
the scales will tilt once and for
all in favor of the forces of !
peace and the barometer of in
ternational weather will show /
Clear. The menace of world
war is gone never to return"
He outlined these goals he
said the program would achieve
for the Soviet Union in the
next 20 years:
Industrial production nearly
twice as great as the present
production of the entire nom
socialist world;
A living standard higher than
in any capitalist country: