To Comrade Sokolnikov
Copy to Comrade Kamenev

I have just read your pamphlet "State Capitalism and the New Financial Policy." I consider its publication at the earliest opportunity to be absolutely useful. On page 23, line 5 from the top, I advise you to replace the word "mordoboy" with the word "slaughter."

If there is polemic on one or another point of your pamphlet, this will only be useful.

I ask you to prepare by Monday or Tuesday* a draft of the briefest directive from the CC concerning the maximum acceleration of the introduction of taxes. Send the draft in the name of Comrade Smolyiananov or Fotieva to the SNK.161

Lenin

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Written December 24, 1921

First published in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed from the typewritten