BASIC PRINCIPLES
of economic policy control for the creation of mobile groups of controllers in all areas
of economic life.
Practical conditions for involving the bourgeois intelligentsia and saboteurs, expressing . doing] the desire
to work with the Soviet government.
Industrial courts for accounting of production, product reserves,
and labor productivity.
(Immediately and unconditionally
1. Completing the nationalization of industry.
2. Gradual transition to full association
into consumer societies and product exchange].
Banking policy.
V. Labor discipline and other things.
5. Tax policy (Finance).
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Completing the nationalization of all factories, plants, railroads,
means of production and exchange. Unconditional and merciless
struggle against syndicalist and chaotic attitude towards nationalized enterprises.
Persistent implementation of centralization of economic life on
a national scale. Unwavering demand for preliminary plans and estimates, weekly reports and actual
increase in labor productivity. Creation and testing in
practice the apparatus for managing nationalized industries.
1 The document was written by Lenin under the text of the «theses of banking policy» presented to him (Deputy
People's Commissar of Finance I.E. Gukovsky?) of the following
content: «1. Not monopolization, but nationalization of the banking
apparatus. Continuation, expansion and deepening of nationalization of industry and exchange» with the presence of organizational preparation from below.
2. Continuation in principle of regulating issues for consumption. 3.
Freedom of check circulation with the creation (Lenin, while editing the theses, replaced the word «creation» with «preservation») of the right to control
check circulation of private enterprises. 4. Mandatory current accounts
provided that the technical apparatus is prepared in advance.
5. Nationalization of foreign trade and protectionism.»
Judging by the original, Lenin first started editing the theses, and then wrote under the underlined document the printed above draft of the «basic principles of economic policy». Lenin wrote the title
«Principles» above the text of the «theses of banking policy».
Lenin Collection XXI year