50 SOCIAL SCIENTIST e9 Report to 14th Congress, Dec 1925. Sec Dobb, op cit, p 207. It is probable that a correct understanding of the classes among the peasantry was deflected by the fierce struggle between the Trotskyist opposition and the Bolshevik majority. The opposition lacked a theoretically cogent basis for advocating super-industrialization and for increasing taxes on the peasantry. Neither did they, until 1927, bring up seriously the question of cooamunization. In order to bolster their programme the opposition pointed out to the majority faction the dangers of differentiation among the peasantry and the strengthening of the kulaks. Bat their figures were S3 exaggerated (sec Dobb, op cit, p 198 and Carr, 9p cit, I, p 207), and their policy of super-industrialization so fantastic that their platform met a four-square offensive from the Bolshevik majority. The political dust that was raised by the Trotskyists breaking away from the democratic procedures of the Bolshevik party in 1927 precluded an appreciation of some of their correct perceptions. 70 Mao Zedong, Selected Works, vol 5, p 193. 71 Mao, Critique.,,, p 45. 72 Mao, Selected Works, vol 5, p 208 ff. 78 Carr and Davies, op, cit., I (i),p 41. 74 Mao, Critique . . . , pp 88,97, 197. 75 See the Narcomzen calculations showing the non-profitability of small scale farming, Carr and Davies, op. cit., I (i),p 199. 76 Bettleheim, op. cit, II, p 530. 77 Ibid, p 531. 78 J Stalin, "Remarks on Economic Question . . /', A Nove and DM Nuti (ed), Socialist Economics, Penguin, 1974, pp 44-45, emphasis in original. 79 Ibid, p 46. See also Mao^s view on these points in Critique . , . , pp 140-147.