V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v40; en:CW/CW42;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

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1) Change the title.

2) Abolish the general civil ration.

3) Make the labour ration the basis, i.e., for days worked.

4) Divide the labour ration into categories according to the lightness or heaviness of the work.

5) 1st category: mental and office work.

6) 2nd category: physical work.

7) 3rd category: particularly heavy work, etc.

8) “Shock groups” (i.e., trades and enterprises of particular importance for production) are transferred, by decision of the Council of People’s Commissars (sometimes, under special rules) and the Council of Defence, to categories 2, 3, etc.

9) For non-workers, the unemployed, also traders, etc., a particularly low ration is established. Exemption.

10) Special exemptions for children and the sick.

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Draft title:

“Decree on Greater Uniformity of Food Rations and on the Labour Ration as the Basis of the Entire Food System.”

What was formerly called the “general civil ration” should be renamed the “ration for the unemployed and small owners” or: citizens having their own occupations, not working, etc. (or: “small proprietors”), “not working in Soviet enterprises and institutions.”

Advantage:

(1) In the capitals and in all non-agricultural, factory towns, enormous simplification (for there the mass works in Soviet enterprises or in Soviet institutions).

(2) In non-industrial towns, we clearly single out the population not working in Soviet enterprises and in Soviet institutions, and this population must gradually be removed from the ration (either start their own vegetable gardens, or go to work in Soviet enterprises or Soviet institutions).

[We shall not feed those who do not work in Soviet enterprises or in Soviet institutions.]

Calculate under which system there will be fewer cards and the whole system simpler.

27. IV. 1920.