1. Notes on the Reorganization of State Control

1) A workers' organ or organ of workers' participation, at the center and in the localities.

2) Witnesses, conceived as a system.

2 bis: obligatorily 2/3 women.

3) Immediate practical tasks:

(α) flying audits, on the basis of citizens' complaints (β) struggle against red tape (γ) revolutionary measures in the struggle against abuses and red tape (δ) transport (ε) increase in labor productivity (ζ) increase in the quantity of products.

2. Memorandum to I. V. Stalin

In my opinion, the decree on Control must include:

1) The establishment of central (and local) organs of workers' participation.

2) To introduce by law systematic participation of witnesses from the proletarian population, with obligatory participation of up to 2/3 women.

3) To put forward immediately, as the nearest tasks:

(α) flying audits on the basis of citizens' complaints (β) struggle against red tape (γ) revolutionary measures in the struggle against abuses and red tape (δ) special attention to increasing labor productivity and (ε) to increasing the quantity of products, etc.

Written March 8, 1919

First published: notes—in 1928 in Leninskii sbornik VIII; memorandum—November 7, 1928 in "Red Gazette" (Leningrad) no. 260

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