V. I.

Lenin

Remarks on the Draft

Re § 1

a) Point I to be headed:

On Labour Enthusiasm . [1] The words “raising the will to work” in he
second line to be replaced by the words “ labour enthusiasm ”.

b) Add the principle establishing the strict responsibility of every
staff worker (board member, manager, director, etc.) for the performance of
a definite operation or job or task, a principle generally recognised and endorsed by many economic council and
other meetings, should be persistently applied in practice without fail. Up
till now this is not by any means being sufficiently practised.

c) The consumers—through the consumers’ societies, etc.—should be
systematically enlisted for control over production.

d) The Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection should be encouraged to
greater participation in control over production and distribution.

e) The fight against profiteering and red tape, as well as against
bureaucratism, should be highlighted.

f) Every effort must be made to organise competition. Measures aimed at
improving discipline and raising labour efficiency should include cuts in
rations for offenders, etc.

g) The end of § 4 of Trotsky’s text (nine last lines) should be
removed or toned down, or worded in a more general form.

( These are my rough preliminary remarks.)

Lenin

3/111.

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Notes:
[1]
Point I of Trotsky’s draft theses was headed “The Will to Work”(see
The Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.). March-April 1920. Minutes.
Moscow, 1900, p. 533)