Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

No, the facts are quite the reverse.The fact that Yugoslavia has been swamped by capitalismis even more striking in the countryside.Marxism-Leninism teaches us that individual economy,petty-producer economy, generates capitalism daily and hourly,and that only collectivization can lead agriculture on tothe path of socialism.Stalin pointed out:Lenin says that so long as individual peasant economy,which engenders capitalists and capitalism, predominatesin the country, the danger of a restoration of capitalism willexist. Clearly, so long as this danger exists there can beno serious talk of the victory of socialist construction inour country. 1On this question the Tito clique pursues a line runningcounter to socialism.In the initial post-war period a land reform took place inYugoslavia and a number of peasants’ working co-operativeswere organized. But in the main the rich-peasant economywas left untouched.In 1951 the Tito clique openly declared its abandonment ofthe road of agricultural collectivization and began to disbandthe peasants’ working co-operatives. This was a serious steptaken by the Tito clique in betraying the socialist cause. Suchco-operatives decreased from over 6,900 in 1950 to a littlemore than 1,200 at the end of 1953, and to 147 in 1960. TheYugoslav countryside is submerged in a sea of individualeconomy.The Tito clique declares that collectivization has not provedof value in Yugoslavia. It makes the vicious slander that1J. V. Stalin, “Grain Procurements and the Prospects for the Developmentof Agriculture”, Works, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1954, Vol. XI,p. 8.148