V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v39;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

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ON FREE TRADE IN GRAIN

Free trade in grain is a state crime

”    ”    ”    ”    is the slaughter of millions for the sake of capital

”    ”    ”    ”    is Kolchakism.

Worker and peasant.

Socialism. Quid est?[35]

Abolition of classes. Ergo[36], abolition of the peasantry, abolition of the (working class) worker.

Neither peasants nor workers, all are working people.

Surplus grain to be handed over.

Speculation.

Property = disunity.

Labour = unity. The Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries are the worst reactionaries.

All the newspapers, all the “ideological collaborators” of Kolchak and Denikin work with their arguments.

The Mensheviks and S.R.s = purveyors of “ideas” for them.

From August 1, 1917 to August 1, 1918 = 30, without the participation of Siberia, the Don, and the Ukraine.

From August 1, 1918 to August 1, 1919 = 705.

(105 × 3.5 = 367.5)

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(Free trade in grain)

On free trade in grain and the relation of the peasant to the worker

1. How to get finally on the right road?

2. 400 million poods of grain for the state.

3. The main obstacle?

4. The force of habit, disunity, discontent, squabbling, capitalism.

5. Free trade in grain is capitalism, a return to the omnipotence of the rich, the landowners and the capitalists.

6.   ”    ”    ”    ” is the slaughter of millions for the profit of the capitalists.

7.   ”    ”    ”    ” is Kolchakism.

8.   ”    ”    ”    ” is a state crime.

9. Sophisms (or “ideological” defence) of the Mensheviks and S.R.s.

154 The Committees of the Poor (Poverty Committees) were established by a decree of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee of June 11, 1918, “On the Organisation and Supply of the Village Poor”. The decree charged the Committees with the tasks of accounting for the food stocks of peasant farms, exposing the kulak stocks and surpluses of food, and assisting the Soviet food organs in confiscating these surpluses; supplying the poor with food at the expense of the kulak farms, distributing agricultural implements and manufactured goods, etc. However, the practical work of the Committees of the Poor covered all aspects of work in the countryside; in fact they became strongpoints, organs of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the countryside; their organisation marked a further development of the socialist revolution in the countryside. At the end of 1918, the Committees of the Poor, having fulfilled the tasks assigned to them, were merged with the volost and village Soviets.

14. The whining of the intelligentsia.

15. Collection of surpluses.

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Etwa[37]:

How to consolidate the victory, ensure it and carry it through to the end?

Take all the surplus grain.

How? Is the path correct?

It is correct (30 vs 105)

the Committees of the Poor and the middle peasant.

Contra the Mensheviks and S.R.s.

Freedom of trade and capitalism

(§§ 5–8).

“Commodity exchange” and loan.

War on the speculator.

Our strength in this war.

Written in August 1919

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript