Date: 26 or 27 May 1921  
Conference: 10th All-Russian Conference of the RCP(b), May 1921

AMENDMENTS TO THE DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY.  
[26 or 27 May 1921]

Lenin’s copy with amendments.

[1. — The fundamental political task of the moment consists in assimilating the new economic policy, taking the latter as established for a long period of time and implementing it with absolute thoroughness and conscientiousness.

2. — Commodity exchange is placed in the forefront as the main lever of the new economic policy. It is necessary to properly organise commodity exchange in order to extract grain and other surpluses. In accordance with this, local initiative and self-activity must be supported and developed in every way.

3. — Commodity exchange is extremely important for establishing correct relations between the proletariat and the peasantry, as the most stable form of their economic relations in the period of transition from capitalism to socialism.  
It is necessary to recognise as priority gubernias those with the largest grain surpluses in order to organise proper commodity exchange in these gubernias in the first place.  
The importance of commodity exchange as a stimulus for the expansion of peasant farming.]

1. The fundamental political task of the moment consists in the full assimilation and precise implementation by all Party and Soviet workers of the new economic policy. The Party recognises this policy as established for a long period, measured in a number of years, and demands that it be carried out with absolute thoroughness and conscientiousness.

2. Commodity exchange is advanced to the forefront as the main lever of the new economic policy. Correct relations between the proletariat and the peasantry, the creation of a fully stable form of economic alliance between these two classes during the period of transition from capitalism to socialism, are impossible without the establishment of systematic commodity exchange or product exchange between industry and agriculture. In particular, the implementation of commodity exchange is necessary as a stimulus for the expansion of peasant sowings and for the improvement of peasant farming.  
Local initiative and independence must at all costs be supported and developed in every respect.  
Gubernias with the largest quantity of grain surpluses must be recognised as priority ones for conducting commodity exchange in them in the first place.

3. Considering the cooperatives to be the basic apparatus for implementing commodity exchange — to recognise as correct the policy of concluding agreements between Narkomprod bodies and cooperative bodies, and of the former transferring commodity exchange funds to the latter for the fulfilment of tasks set by the state authority and under its control.  
To grant the cooperatives broad possibilities for organising procurements and for the all-round development of local industry and the boosting of economic life in general.  
Support for the credit operations of the cooperatives.  
Struggle against anarchic (i.e., eluding all control and supervision by the state) commodity exchange by concentrating commodity exchange chiefly in the hands of the cooperatives, without in any way restricting regular free trade.  
Study of the market.

4. Support for small and medium-sized (private and cooperative) enterprises, primarily those not requiring supply from state stocks of raw materials, fuel and foodstuffs.  
Permitting the lease of state enterprises, with the mandatory requirement that each such case be brought to the attention of the centre.

5. Responsibility of central institutions for hindrances with regard to local initiative and for insufficient support thereof.

6. Review (in a certain part) of the production programmes of large-scale industry in the direction of increasing the output of mass consumer goods.

7. Development of the system of in-kind bonuses and the establishment, on an experimental basis, of collective supply. Establishment of more correct distribution and economy of food products with the aim of raising labour productivity.

8. Necessity of preserving and strengthening the apparatus for the rapid, complete and universal collection of the tax in kind. Ensuring for the food supply agencies, for this purpose, the necessary Party authority. Preservation and strengthening of centralisation in the food supply apparatus.

9. Concentration of all the foregoing measures on the practical combat task of the current year: to collect no less than 400 million poods of grain fund as a base for the restoration of large-scale industry and the implementation of the electrification plan.

10. To adopt in principle the draft mandate of the STC, instructing the VTsIK faction to turn it into a law. To recognise as an unconditional and top-priority task of the Party to secure the strictest implementation of this mandate in general and, in particular, the promotion to work and the enlistment in work of non-Party people.

11. The conference instructs the Central Committee and all Party organisations to carry out systematically a series of measures to intensify agitation and propaganda for the full clarification and broad implementation of all the tasks set forth above.

12. To set, as an unconditionally most important task of the Party, the attentive and comprehensive elucidation and study — both in the press and at meetings, conferences, congresses, trade union, Party, etc. — of the practical experience of the localities and the centre in the work of economic construction.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XX

Printed from the manuscript