The kolkhozes were poor, with nothing to sow. Every evening they invited the heads of houses to the kolkhoz office and demanded their signatures that they would give up grain for the sowing. But no one could sign, since no one had grain. They would keep the heads there until late, demanding signatures, then let them go, having achieved nothing, and invite them back the next night; there was a special person going around, inviting people.
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No, it is not. The associations for the joint cultivation of the land, in which the means of production are not yet socialized, represent an already superseded stage in the collective-farm movement. Perhaps it is the agricultural commune? No, it is not the commune. The communes are still isolated phenomena in the collective-farm movement.
The conditions are not yet ripe for making the agricultural communes, in which not only all production but distribution also is socialized, the predominant form. The main link in the collective-farm movement, its predominant form at the present moment, the link which we must now grasp, is the agricultural artel.
In the agricultural artel the principal means of production, chiefly those used in grain growing, are socialized: labor, the use of the land, machines and other implements, draught animals, farm buildings. But in the artel, household land small vegetable gardens, small orchards , dwellings, a certain part of the dairy cattle, small livestock, poultry, etc.
The artel is the main link of the collective farm movement because it is the most expedient form for solving the grain problem. And the grain problem is the main link in the whole system of agriculture because, unless that problem is solved, it is impossible to solve either the problem of livestock raising large and small livestock , or the problem of industrial and special crops which provide the basic raw materials for industry. That is why the agricultural artel is at the present moment the main link in the system of the collective-farm movement.
It is from this, too, that our Party and Soviet functionaries should proceed; it is their duty to make a thorough study of these Rules and carry them out to the full. Can it be said that this line of the Party is being carried out without infractions and distortions?
We know that in a number of districts in the USSR, where the struggle for the existence of the collective farms is far from being at an end, and where the artels are not yet consolidated, attempts are being made to skip the artel form and to organize agricultural communes from the outset. One might think that the grain problem has already been solved in the collective farms, that it is already a superseded stage, that the main task at the. Who benefits by this stupid and harmful precipitancy?
What is this—a policy of leading the collective farm, or a policy of disintegrating and discrediting it? Remove the church bells—how revolutionary indeed!
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