V. I.

Lenin

March 8-16, 1921 [1]

1

Outline Of A Speech At A Meeting Of Supporters Of The “Platform Of

Ten [2]

1) Top strata (bureaucratic) in the Workers’ Opposition
....

2) bottom strata’ actually linked with the rank and file,
really proletarian...

3) most resolute ideological struggle against the
syndicalist and Makhayev deviation (at the top) of the Workers’ Opposition

4) congress decision condemning in principle the
syndicalist, anarchist, Makhayev deviation of the Workers’ Opposition

5) congress decision (by roll-call vote) against leaving
any faction or trace of factionalism

6) threat of expulsion from the Party and transference from
the C.C. to alternate membership ((by decision of C.C. + Control Commission
+ all alternate members + two-thirds??)) [3]

7) take really proletarian elements into the CC.

8) penetrate ,study, investigate, explore...

9) a number of speakers (at the congress) to put this line
through should be elected immediately

10) elect a bureau of the “platform of
Ten”...

11) resolution on the report of the C.C. (a) on greater
unity and discipline generally, and in the C.C.; (β) on less
bureaucratism in the Orgbureau

12) next meeting on the day of (or day after) arrival of
the Petrograders (and Zinoviev)

+13) congress decision on press reporting of the
Party congress: tone down factional disputes, demonstrate unity.

| Written in March, not later than 9, 1921 | |
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| First published in 1959 In Lenin Miscellany XXXVI | |
| Printed from the manuscript. | |

2

Remark On The Amendment Of Rafail (B. B. Farbman)

To The Resolution On Party Unity March

16 [4]

I don’t think this amendment ought to be adopted. When this
discussion started we did not keep to the division in Pravda—political
articles got mixed up with discussion articles. We say here in an emphasised but not ultimatum form that these
should not be dragged into the press.

| First published in 1921 in the book The Tenth congress of the Russian Communist Party. Verbatim Report ( March 8-16, 1921 ), Moscow | |
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| Printed from use text of the book, collated with the shorthand report. | |

3

Remark On Kiselyov’s Speech Concerning The Resolution On Party Unity
March

16 [5]

Comrades, I am very sorry that I used the word “machinegun” and hereby give a solemn promise never to use such words
again even figuratively, for they only scare people and afterwards you
can’t make out what they want. (Applause.) Nobody intends to shoot
at anybody with a machine-gun and we are sure that neither Comrade Kiselyov
nor anybody else will have cause to do so.

| First published in 1933 in the book The Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) March 1921 , Moscow | |
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| Printed from the text of the book, collated with the shorthand report | |

4

Remark On Marchenko’s Amendment To The Resolution On The Anarchist And
Syndicalist Deviation March

16 [6]

To say this in the name of the congress is far too prohibitive. I move that this amendment should not be adopted, without, of
course, depriving the C.C. of the right to recommend, and in case of need,
to concentrate all this in C.C.

publications: but I think it would be too much to have a congress ban on
the issue of such publications locally.

| First published in 1921 in the book The Tenth Congress of The Russian Communist Party. Verbatim Report ( March 8-16, 1921 ), Moscow | |
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| Printed from the text of the book, collated with the shorthand report | |