Page THE MILITANT Saturday, March 8, 1995 The Policy of the Leadership and the Party Regime brought out the working class and the Party By CHRISTIAN RAKOVSKY will grow to a still greater degree, insofar from its numbness, which was simultanas the Kulak will continue to group about eously a condition and a consequence of himsell the middle peasants and part of the rule of Centrism. Objectively CenWe give below another excerpt from the theses of Rakovsky, Okudjava the poor. Further, the bureaucratic metrism is condemned by history. Precisely and Kossior, which chacterizes the economic policy of the Centrist leadership thods of rationalization, with the aid of because of this, in its desire to prein connection with the Party regime. That the new five year plan, worked out administrative pressure, blacklisting and serve itself as a leading group, it takes under the whip of the Opposition, represents a big fact and an important suptricks of a la Larin may create such measures in order to still more strengthen port for the further struggle of the Opposition, only the pedants of the ultrabreak away of the working class from the itself organizationally and ideologically. Left phrase can deny. On the other hand, the claim that the Five Year Plan Party, such a political minus, which It will Forthat purpose it utilizes the sigantic removes all or even the basic differences, can only come from the capitulators, be Impossible to compensate by the best power which the revolution concentrated who have been waiting for an excuse to get on their knees. Rakovsky very achievements of Industrialization. The in the hands of the party leadership. Cen correctly insists on the unbreakable bond and relattonship of all the parts of Party leadership expects to support itselt trism excluded and is still excluding the our platform. In conection with this he gives the basis for the on the groups of poor in the village, but Rights from the leadership in the Trade declaration of the opposition to the Central Comittee, and over its head, to the the latter are a mere fiction, There is Unions and the Comintern, the Soviet and Party.
almost no work conducted among the groups Party organizations, but only for the purThe sense of the declaration in the interpretation of comrade Rakovsky of poor wrote one of the inembers of the pose of substituting Centrists for the Rights.
is the following: colleglum of the Commissariat of AgriculBut what is most characteristic of the You made a principally new and important step, in the question of ture, Latzis (Pravda, December 23, 1928)
Centrist leadership is that with doubled industrialization. But this step will not achieve your purpose, if you will not Another In Siberia there are 15 and tripled energy it concentrated its se on the one hand evaluate a series of theoretical assumptions, and on the other thousand cooperatives, and in them there verity against the Leninist Opposition, enhand. If you will not make radical reforms in regard to the Party, the trade are only 266 groups of poor organized (figriching daily its arsenal with new guns of unions and the Soviets. If you sincerely and seriously want to get on this road ures by Komarov, member of the territory compulsion. The most remarkable inven you must first of all reestablish the Opposition in the Party. This political committee. tion in this respect which was made after syllogism, the Opposition transformed into a political act, by presenting the de Centrists Fear Workers and Poor Peasants our platform had been written, is the in claration for its reestablishment on the Party. Editors.
In regard to the working class as well vention which leaves its impression on the as the peasant poor, Centrism continues present epoch and which resurrects in the its fdrmer policy of fear and lack of conSoviet Union, the clerical methods of the owner in the village have already succeeded sants, the new law on food taxes, the raisfidence this is a feature of bureaucratism Middle Ages. This is the effort to compel in partly getting hold of the apparatus, sub ing of prices on grain which gave the wellgenerally Centrism fears the real rartiby all means that the Oppositionists of the ordinating it to their class interest. to do peasants an additional 350 million Communist Party give up their Communist rubles. all this not only disturbs the incipation of the laboring masses in Socialist Sometimes through the official material views (which was woven by the attitude dustrialization and building of collective construction. Of course it would like to which presents a picture of general welsupport itself on them, but with the contowards the so called Left Centrists fare and idyllic relations between the farms but puts it under the direct threat ditions that the masses should not occupy Schatzkin, Sten, and others; the impatia of a break up.
working class and our government, there themselves with rolitics. that is, shall not ence of Centrism, has lately increased still breaks through The Left swing of the Center (inlike lighning through judge and what is inore, criticise the more. Life proved the whole inconsisclouds, tragic facts, such as the dustrialization, building of collective farms. general line. Centrism kills the actual tency of the Centrist ideologic zig zags murder and lynching at the Griyno Station is a compelled one on the one hand, by the initiative of the masses. It under the inwrong and anti Leninist ones.
which throw an instantaneous but clear pressure of the Rights who wanted to fluence of sharpening struggle in the vilBut Centrism, having monopoly on light on the realities. The press had to sweep aside the Center with the aid of the lage Centrism should be compelled to perthe press, continues to talsify the Leninist register the words of the defense at the Kulak and grain strikes, and on the other mit unions of peasant poor, It will put them teachings and leads astray the Party and trial: passing quarrel occurred between hand, by the pressure of the dissatisfaction under such bureaucratic supervision, that the working class by saying that it the working class and the apparatus of the working class, whose interests were they would very rapidly resemble our trade is not the Kulallt that attacks us, but we created by it. In the same newspaper, in hit by the grain strike; and finally by the unions, out of which bureaucratism has attack the Kulak (Bauman, Molotov. The the speeches of the prosecuting attorney, pressure of the Leninist Opposition. The castrated the class and revolutionary conclaim of the capitulators, that Centrism has was noted the fact of passive and indifferent removal of the effect of the latter two factent. Industrialization and a struggle with changed although it still rests on the same conduct of the Communists and Young tors would immediately create the condi agrarian capitalism, directed by the apparever widening social base the functionarCommunists present in the mob during the tion for a new Right swing of the Center, tus, which is partly worn off and which ies with a corresponding ideology, and its wild lynching scene. It one can analyse either with the leaders remaining at the has lost its revolutionary enthusiasm and pentlar apparatus methods of ruling the politically the event at the Grivro Station, head, or by way of removing the present in many of its links is decomposed, will be country and the Party, only proves that he will understand that it has a more sympleaders of that part of the Party which under constant threat of break up.
the capitulators have lost all their theorettomatic significance than one or another follows the Right leaders.
The Party Regime ical conscience and have rolled themselves resolution at a Party conference. no less The only real guarantees against The Opposition of the years 1923 24 into the mud of Centrism. Because Censymptomatic significance is the fact that a new recession of the Center to the Right foresaw the tremendous harm to the protrism is condemned by history as a current a worker was boycotted by his craftsmen is the Leninist Opposition whch consistent letarian dictatorship coming out of the pernot possessing the requisite qualities, and for joining the Communist Party, or the ly expresses the interests of the proletsooner or later will cease to be a deterversion of the Party regime. Events have fact Included in the report about organ ariat and the village poor.
raining factor in the life ot the Party, completely Justified the prognosis. the izational conditions in Bakinsk, where the enemy has climbed in through the bureau he liquidation of the Leninist Opposition, The Five Year Plan falling off of workers reaches 25 of the Its dissolution in the Centrist mud, would cratic window.
number of applicants in a year. Workers mean nothing else than the presentation of The capitulators consider the five year Now more than at any other time it the power to the Rights. In betraying the leave the Party in spite of the fact that plan from the arithmetic viewpoint exclumust be said loudly. a correct democratic Opposition, the capitulators betray the inmembership in it insures to a certain exsively, not taking into consideration, even Party regime is the testing stone of the terests of Communism, the Party and the tent agalnst the loss of one job. As far from such an approach, that as a result of present Left course.
as the moods of the village are concerned working class.
inflation and the drop of the buying power There is an opinion held even by some is is significant to point out, that the reof the Chervonetz, the figure of investments steadtast revolutionaries, that a correct The Changes in. lass Relations sults which were brought by the chaotic is in reality much smaller than the five year line in the sphere of economics must ot character of the grain collections resulted The capitulators befog the capital plan shows. They leave out the main quesitselt bring about a correct Party regime.
in the village in a bloc between the poor question: what kind of a turn is taking tion: what change in the class relations This view, with its pretence to dialectics, is and middle peasants with the Kulaks.
in the country will the five year plan bring?
one sided and anti dialectical, because it place in relation to the class forces in the country? It is true, as we shall see, they ignores the fact that in the historic process, Industrialization and the Classes This oversight on the part of Radek and sometimes talk about it, but then only Company is fully understood insofar as the cause and effect change their places repeatedly.
when they have to sow panic in the midst five year plan is the fig leat to cover up wrong line will increase a The capitulators try to single out the of the Opposition. But ordinarily to them wrong regime and wrong regime will industrialization and the building of col their capitulation. Meanwhile here is what the turn in the country and the Party 18 still more disfigure the line.
lective farms from the whole chain of a coeditor of the official organ of the GosUnder Lenin there was a correct line.
covered by the turn in the policy of the Centrist measures from its general pol plan Planned Economy (Strumlin) is comBut it was precisely Lenin who pointed out Centrist leadership which is of course not Icles. Considering them as a sort of mat pelled to admit. If the Five Year Plan will the same. The turn in the country contin. ters of their own they also attempt to be realized fully at the end of five years that the apparatus with its anti proletar ues to unfold unfavorably for the prolet regard the new course of Centrism as the rise of the per capita national income ian methods, turn a correct line into its arlat. There undoubtedly is a Left turn opposite.
Independent of the immediate reasons that will be 51 in the city, 62 in the village in the Party, but its reasons and character The machine isn going where we called it forth. Finally they avoid or betog and 40 for the well to do part of the vilare distinguished from the turn in the lead the biggest and most basic questions: What lage. However, this is under the condition guide it, but where some illegal, or lawless ership. For the Centrist leadership the or God knows whence derived speculators conditions must be fulfilled that the indus of the stabilisation of prices on agricultural turn towards the struggle with agrarian or private capitalistic businessmen, either trialization and the bullding of collective products on the level of 114. that is 14 the one or the other are guiding it. capitalism was a matter of compulsion farms shall not remain mere paper reso higher than in 1927 28. Meantime the index This is a turn of the bureaucratic group machine doesn always travel just exactly lutions (like the resolution on Party dem of the private agricultural sector has risen under the pressure of events but the the way, and it often travels just exactly ocracy at the end of 1923. that it shall 37. in only this one year.
not the way, that the man imagines who turn in the Party we have in mind the not be stopped half way, or that they Further, the actual income of the work site at the wheel.
working scetion of it is a class turn. But should not glvo results directly opposite er (city) is supposed to go up by the That is how Lenin expressed himselt while the Center makes its Left steps on to those expected.
end of the five years by 58. but the pro at the Party congress at which he appeared the agrarian question, with excuses adapThe new Centrist servants and accoun ductivity of the worker is supposed to rise for the last time. What Lenin signalised ting itself to the moment, the turn in the tants, the capitulators, supporters of un100 110. At the same time, the village, at the time as proof of the influence of the Party is a genuine revolutionary one.
principledness, and possibleiam, avoid anthrough only the difference in prices, will bourgeoisie on the apparatus, developed The Centrist leadership conceals very get billion rubles, and in the governalysing the most important sides of the thanks to the policy of the Centrist top.
carefully the contradictory processes going question of industrialization and the strugment expenditures for industrialization only By selecting people not according to their on in the country. One of the most harm gle against agrarian capitalism, knowing about 10 will be allotted. The growth of ability, experience and tried honesty, but tul reculiarities of the Centrist leadership that an honest discussion of these questions wages in the first part of this year amoun exclusively according to the principle of is to cover up the traces and to present would reveal the double faceness and conted to but the price index of the col adaptibility, the Centrists gave that luxeverything in a rosy light (everything tradictions of Centrism, its inability to get lectivised sector went up private, urlous obuquet the songle folwers of which goes from good to better. But it does not on the road of continuous Socialist con19. and the agricultural, as we albear the names of our great cities: Smosucceed in hiding everything. The loud scanstruction.
In reality such a discussion ready saw, 37. The conclusion: the lensk, Baku; etc. Centriem did not create dals that occur periodically prove how far would have revealed that center of gravity of the wealthy part of the bureaucratism. It inherited it together the decomposition of the Right Center apvillage in the general economics of the with the other general peculiarities, culparatus has gone in the Party as well as The policy of Centrism remains country will grow further, notwithstanding tural and others with the conditions of in the Soviets and Trade Unions. Beginning Right on the Labor question and the Party the talk about the struggle against agrar our country. But instead of combatting with the heights of the commissariats tbem regime (here it even went to the worst ian capitalism.
bureaucratiam, Centrism developed it into selves and ending with the county com compared to the past) and partly in the without unions of poor peasants, the system of government, carried it over mittees bourgeois rust penetrates the pores village (not allowing unions of poor per political influence of the wealthy peasantry Stall and the Centrist apparator are mak.
the proletarian dictatorship. The priTha sharpening of the class strugglevate Nepmen in the city and the well to do Continued on Pova.