Bcongne Tron tx SovterRewst: Fey An Yupom, translated by tani, Came Peat London Este len & Unwin Lid.
"When we tarn to practice, we see that the eleven Yeats of Soviet tale have given a convincing, may 2 cruel demonstration of the ime Possibility, of establishing Related socialism in' Bessia. The utopian endeavors to overleap historically inevitable stages of econo-mie evolution have been shipwrecked."
With this sweeping indictment, the author of "Economic Trends in closes case against the Soviet, a case which is convincingly substantiated by ample statistical evidence culled from Soviet sources. Mr. Yugoff analyzes economic conditions from the standpoint of the prewar period, the "war communism" period, the period after the adoption of Lenin's "New Economic Policy," and from the point of view of the present.
He shows us among other things that the U.S. S. Ro is producing Tess than half the cotton crop of pre-war days, that her manufactur ing is being done on antiquated and worn machinery, that in 1927 the unemployed numbered 1.7 mil-ions, in 1928 it exceeded two mil-ions' and is estimated at more than three millions by 1931. He tells us that the three-shifts system, banned by communist theory as. inhuman, has been reintroduced to speed production; that the farmer can obtain three or four times as much for his products in the open market as he receives from the state. He points out that nationalizing the means of produetion, they have not been socialized. Management of industry is not ried on by self-governing organtions of the active workers, but a bureaveratic state apparatus, The author sees in the Soviet experiment in Russia an attempt to develop in a country undeveloped both economically and agriculturally and lacking in adequate economic machinery and raw materi system of social economy which could only be successful in a coun-which had already attained a high economic development.
"From year to year," he says, "it becomes more and more obvious that an equilibrium between the social content of the State author-¥y, on the one hand, and the con-fon of the social forces in the country, on the other, cannot be secured without a radical breach with the past." He goes on to say that there are three possible ways in which this breach might] be effected. A democratic State] authority might be set up: or part! of the Communist party might be: transformed into.a party of the possessing classes, or, finally, there clit be a Bonaparlist or' reac~ tionary coup d'etat. No one can foresee which course development will take, "This much, however, is certain, that the party which now rules in the U.S. 8. R. is no longer a party of the working classes; is not a party which can carry out a policy of socialization; is not even a party competent to promote in any content or enduring fashion the interests of the working class ya
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