V. I.

Lenin

715

To:   N. I. BUKHARIN [1]

Why now dwell on the differences between us ( perhaps possible ones), if it suffices to state (and prove) on behalf of the Central Committee as a whole :

(1) proletarian culture=communism (2) is carried out by the R.C.P.

(3) the proletar.-class=R.C.P.= Soviet power .

We are all agreed on this, aren’t we?

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Notes:
[1]
By a decision of the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on
October 11, 1920, N. I. Bukharin was directed to speak at a meeting of the Communist, group at the First All-Russia Congress of
Proletcult, which was held in Moscow from October 5 to 12, 1920.
The document published hero was Lenin’s reply to a note from
Bukharin, who announced his refusal to speak at the Congress
on the grounds that disagreements between him and Lenin were
possible on certain questions of proletarian culture, for example,
on point 4 of Lenin’s draft resolution “On Proletarian Culture”
(see present edition, Vol. 31, pp. 316–17). The Communist group
at the First Congress of Proletcult was proposed to adopt an
organisational resolution subordinating the central and local Proletcult
organisations to the People’s Commissariat for Education.
This resolution was drawn up on the lines of Lenin’s express
directives and was unanimously adopted by the Proletcult
Congress.