Comrade Larin!

It is necessary to write a small pamphlet (30-40 pages of small format) on the composition and activities of the VSNKh.

This is of supreme importance both for Europe and for the peasantry.

To recount clearly, simply, with facts:
(.) the participation of workers' organizations, (.) the non-syndicalist, precisely communist (Marxist) character of the construction (i.e., of the new social structure, order),
(.) the subordination (i.e., the breaking of resistance) of capitalists,
(.) practical successes (we have registered all manufacturing: figures), 5-10 best examples, etc.
(.) What else remains to be done?
(.) The new role of trade unions:
(..) their growth, (..) their numerical composition at present,
(..) their role: they are managing production.
(.) The number of nationalized enterprises, etc. 145

Lenin

Written in late July— early August 1918

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript