Vladimir Lenin's

Completion of nationalisation of industry and exchange.
Nationalisation of banks and gradual transition to socialism.
Compulsory organisation of the population in consumer co-operative
societies.
{+Commodity exchange}
Accounting and control of production and distribution of goods.
Labour discipline.
{+Tax policy}

Centralisation

Measures for transition to compulsory current accounts or to compulsory
keeping of money in the banks.

Compulsory organisation of the population in consumer co-operative
societies and measures for transition to this.

Conditions of an agreement with co-operators on gradual transition of
their apparatus towards organisation of the whole population in consumer
co-operative societies.

Compulsory labour service, begun from the top.

The most ruthless measures to combat chaos, disorder and idleness, and
the most vigorous and severe measures for raising the discipline and
self-discipline of the workers and peasants, are to be regarded as
absolutely essential and urgent.

Conversion of state control into a real control for setting up mobile
groups of controllers in all spheres of economic life.

Practical conditions concerning the employment of bourgeois
intellectuals and saboteurs who express the desire to work with the Soviet
government. Industrial courts for taking account of production, stocks of
goods and labour productivity. (lmmediate and categorical.)

Completion of nationalisation of industry.

Gradual transition to organisation of one and all in consumer
co-operatives and commodity exchange.

Banking policy.

Labour discipline and so forth.

Tax policy (finance).

1. Completion of the nationalisation of all factories, railways, means
of production and exchange.

* Categorical and ruthless struggle agaiust the syndicalist and chaotic
attitude to nationalised enterprises. Persistent carrying out of
centralisation of economic life on a nationwide scale. Unremitting demand
for preliminary plans and estimates, weekly reports and actual increase of
labour productivity. Establishment and practical trial of the apparatus for
managing the nationalised industries.

* The reason for this demand was that when certain enterprises were
nationalised the staffs of these enterprises and certain trade unions had a
tendency to regard the enterprise or branch of industry as belonging to the
staff of the enterprise or to the trade union. Lenin was very much against
such anarcho-syndicalist tendencies. When the question of water transport
on the Volga was being discussed by the Council of People's Commissars on
March 4, 1918, Lenin condemned the proposal to make the nationalised river
craft the property of the trade unions of the various shipping lines and
stressed that such aspirations had nothing in common with socialism. "The
task of socialism," Lenin said, "is to make all the means of production the
property of the whole people, and certainly not to have the ships handed
over to the ship workers and the banks handed over to the bank
workers."