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

Expropriation of poorer peasants and promotion of capitalistfarms form the Tito clique’s basic policy in the sphere ofagriculture. Back in 1955, Tito said:We do not abandon the idea that the day will come inYugoslavia when small farms will be combined in one wayor another. . . . In America they have already done so.We must find a solution to this problem.In order to take the capitalist path, in 1959 the Tito cliquepromulgated the Law on the Utilization of Cultivated Land,stipulating that the land of peasants working on their own,who cannot farm it according to requirements, is subject to the“compulsory management” of the “general agricultural cooperatives”and “agricultural farms”. In effect, this means theexpropriation of poorer peasants and the forcible annexationof their land to develop capitalist farms. This is the path ofcapitalist agriculture, pure and simple.In speaking of the transition from small peasant economy toan economy of large-scale farming, Stalin said:There you have two paths, the capitalist path and thesocialist path: the path forward — to socialism, and the pathbackward — to capitalism.Is there a third path? Stalin said, “The so-called third pathis actually the second path, the path leading back to capitalism.”“For what does it mean to return to individual farmingand to restore the kulaks? It means restoring kulak bondage,restoring the exploitation of the peasantry by the kulaks andgiving the kulaks power. But is it possible to restore thekulaks and at the same time to preserve the Soviet power?No, it is not possible. The restoration of the kulaks is boundto lead to the creation of a kulak power and to the liquidationof the Soviet power — hence, it is bound to lead to the formationof a bourgeois government. And the formation of abourgeois government is bound to lead in its turn to the153