ABSTRACT
The sole material basis for socialism is a vast machine industry, capable of reorganizing agriculture'. The present tempo of industrialization and the tempo indicated for the coming years are obviously inadequate. The inadequate tempo of development in industry leads in turn to a retardation of the growth of agriculture. The necessary acceleration of industrialization is impossible without a systematic and determined lowering of the costs of production and of wholesale and retail prices on industrial goods, and their equalization with world prices. The question of the five-year plan of development of the public economy, on the agenda of the coming Fifteenth Party Congress, ought properly to occupy the center of the party's attention. The monopoly of foreign trade is a weapon necessary to the life of a socialist effort, when the capitalist countries possess a higher technique. A regime of economy is a question of class policy and can be realized only under direct pressure from the mass.
