In the concluding speech, Comrade Lenin in a rather sharp manner pointed out to his "opponents" that such groundless criticism, such sweeping accusations against the Central Committee without adducing a single fact, tossing around the names of even specialists, lumping them together as "bourgeois", without attempting to find out who they are, does not become Communists. Comrade Lenin listed a whole number of names of workers who were able to prove themselves in joint work with specialists, to establish proper relations with them and derive from them what was necessary. Such workers do not complain about the specialists; those who grumble are the ones who did not justify themselves at work. Take, for example, Comrade Shlyapnikov (one of the opponents, who introduced himself as a member of the "Workers' Opposition"{43}), who is trying his best, as Comrade Lenin put it, "to hatch disagreements out of himself," objecting to what Comrade Lenin said in the report that we are in debt to the peasantry, and pointing out that here, supposedly, "the opposition disagrees with Comrade Lenin." Or the same Shlyapnikov, who stubbornly closes his eyes to his unsuccessful work, and insists on portraying his trip to Arkhangelsk as exile by the Central Committee. Or Comrade Bubnov, who spoke so much about the struggle against bureaucracy and reported nothing about how he is struggling against bureaucracy at least in his own Glavtextile, where there is no less, and perhaps more, of this bureaucracy than in other institutions. Therefore, – warned the comrades of Zamoskvorechye Vladimir Ilyich, – when you hear such criticism, criticism without content, criticism for the sake of criticism, be on the alert, look to see whether the criticizing comrade may have his vanity wounded in some way, whether he may be personally touched or irritated, which pushes him into groundless opposition, opposition for the sake of opposition.

In conclusion, Comrade Lenin answered the questions submitted, dwelling in greater detail on the question of concessions.