and so on up to No. 10, the highest norm, if the total number of norms can be limited to ten norms.

2) To determine monthly how many consumers (workers or employees plus members of families) receive according to each norm.

If this could be done, we would know exactly how many norms there are: that is firstly.

Secondly, we would easily shift individual groups from one norm to another.

Thirdly, we would always know how much has actually been issued and to how many workers.

12/XI.

Lenin

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Written 12 November 1920.

First published in 1945

in the Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript