# article. End of February — beginning of March 1919

SOVIET CONSTRUCTION AND TASKS OF THE SOVIET POWER

Mansurov, the delegation included: S. Said-Galiev, chairman of the Central Bureau of the KONV, and his deputy M. Sultan-Galiev. (In 1927, M. Sultan-Galiev was expelled from the party and convicted in the case of a counter-revolutionary pan-Turkist organization associated with Basmachism.)

The original draft of the "Regulations on the Tatar Socialist Republic" is meant. This draft was developed by an interdepartmental commission consisting of members of the Central Bureau of the KONV and representatives of a number of departments (Narkomvnudel, Narkomyust, VChK, VSNKh, All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, etc.).

ADDITIONS TO THE DRAFT REGULATIONS
ON SUBBOTNIKS K
[No earlier than the end of March 1920]
1. Goals and purposes of subbotniks.
1) Subbotniks are one of the Forms of propaganda of the idea of labor conscription and self-organization of the working class.
2) Subbotniks should be a laboratory of Forms of communist labor.
3) Subbotniks should begin primarily for particularly important and urgent work.
4) Subbotniks should produce at least the established norms, but subbotnik participants should strive to exceed these norms.
+ a) increase in productivity] of labor
b) " discipline of labor
c) implementation of the dictatorship of the proletariat
d) leadership of the peasantry
e) rescue from hunger and ruin

The author of the project is A. N. Sokolov, an employee of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). The development of the regulation was prepared, apparently, for the anniversary of the organization of subbotniks (by May 10, 1920).

VIII. ARTICLE PLANS AND NOTES ON BOOKS
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ON THE OCCASION OF THE APPEAL OF THE GERMAN INDEPENDENTS.
UNFINISHED ARTICLE.
End of February — beginning of March 1919]1
It is rare to receive foreign newspapers in Russia now: the blockade with which the "democratic capitalists" of the Entente have surrounded us is apparently working diligently. They are afraid to acquaint the educated workers of America, England, France with ignorant and wild Bolshevism, they are afraid that in the country of this wild Bolshevism they will not learn about its successes in the West.
But no matter how diligently the gendarmerie of the new "Holy Alliance" works, you can't hide the truth!
I recently managed to see several issues of the Berlin newspaper "Freedom," the organ of the so-called "independent" German Social Democrats. On the first page of No. 74 (dated February 11, 1919) there is a lengthy appeal: "To the revolutionary proletariat of Germany" 2 signed by the central committee of the party and its faction in the German Constituent Assembly. The ideas, or rather the lack of ideas, of this appeal are so characteristic not only of the German, but also of the world labor movement that they are worth paying close attention to.
But first I will allow myself one digression connected with personal memories. Among the signatures of the members of the Independent Faction, I met, among other things, the names of Segeer and Laukant and remembered what happened three years ago. I happened to meet Laukant at a Zimmerwald meeting in Bern3. This, apparently influential, Berlin worker made a twofold impression: on the one hand, serious revolutionary work in the masses, on the other hand, an amazing lack of theoretical * and monstrous short-sightedness. Laukant did not like
* Here, apparently, the word "interests" is missing. Ed.

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my sharp attacks on Kautsky (the ideological "leader" of the independents or the leader of their lack of ideas), but he did not refuse to help me when I, unsure of my poor German, showed him the text of a short German speech written by me, in which I quoted the statement of the "American Bebel," Eugene Debs, that he would rather be shot than agree to vote for credits for the imperialist war and that he, Debs, would agree to fight only in the war of workers against capitalists. On the other hand, when I showed Laukant with furious indignation a passage from Kautsky's article, where this gentleman condemned the workers' going out into the street as an adventure 4 (and this under Wilhelm II!), Laukant, shrugging his shoulders, replied to me with a calmness that drove me crazy: "The workers don't read this so carefully! And am I obliged to agree with every line of Kautsky?"
1 Justification of the date: Lenin delivered a report on bourgeois democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat on March 4, in which he first mentioned the appeal of the German "independents." The article undoubtedly began before the report.
2 Lenin devoted § 21 of his theses and report on bourgeois democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat at the I Congress of the Comintern to the assessment of the appeal of the German "independents" (Works, vol. XXIV, p. 15).
* 
Lenin means the expanded meeting of the International Socialist Commission (ISK) in Bern from February 5–9, 1916. The meeting was attended by delegates from Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Portugal and Romania, totaling *20 people. On the first day of the meeting, the report of the bureau of the International Youth Union was discussed. The following days of the meeting were devoted to hearing reports from the field. Lenin apparently spoke in the debates on these reports. For more details about this meeting, see Works, vol. XIX, p. 470, note 102.
4 This refers to Kautsky's article "Die Sozialdemokratie im Kriege" ("Social Democracy During the War"), published in the journal "Die Neue Zeit" No. 1 dated October 2, 1914.

ARTICLE PLAN "ON THE TASKS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL"
LATER APRIL 14, 1919.
a.
ORIGINAL
PLAN EDITION.
Ramsay M / a] kdonald on the III [Internatio]nal.
1) In Exlenso2.
2) Typically
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