Date: not later than 25 May 1921 (report); 26 or 27 May 1921 (closing speech)
Conference: X All-Russia Conference of the RCP(b), May 1921

PLAN OF REPORT AND CLOSING SPEECH ON THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY

A.

PLAN OF REPORT
[Not later than 25 May 1921]

Criticism (and malicious distortions) and misunderstandings in connection with the tax in kind, f[reedom of] trade etc.

C[ompa]re 5.V. 1918 (on L[eft] childishness and on p[etty] b[ourgeoisness])

1.
(a) The danger of the "petty-proprietor element"
(b) St[ate] cap[italism] versus the p[etty] b[ourgeois] anarchic element.

Tax and free[dom] [of [spontaneous]] tra[de]
"concession" or "relief"?
Free[dom] of circul[ation] and b[ourgeois]ness
State capitalism.

Concessions also st[ate] cap[italism] — state capitalism.

"Relief," concessions, agreements, retreats as a consequence of crop failure, ruin...
Measure of patience?
of w[ork]ers?
of p[easants]?
"Thermidor"?
Soberly.
P[er]h[aps]. Yes? Will be? We shall see.
Do not boast as you set off to battle.
com[pare] 5. V. 1918 (quot[ation] from pamphlet])
com[pare] 10. XI 1918 (anti-Kautsky)
Then and now.
Consciousness and unconsciousness.
Dicta[t]o[r]ship and freedom, then and now.
Classes then and now.
Reason and prejudice of p[easants].
Dilemma. Choice. Difficult agreement with the w[ork]ers' government or easy enslavement by the b[ourgeois]ie and lan[down]ers?

B.

PLAN OF CLOSING SPEECH
[26 or 27 May 1921]

Vacillations:
1) "The p[easa]nt[ry] — a class" (Vareikis)
2) "food inspection" of Svider[sky]... (Vasilyev)... (and Meshcheryakov)
3) Larin and his decree versus res[olution] of the Pol[it]b[uro] 10 IV 1921.
4) "Reproach to return to the Central Com[mittee]":
(a) exchange for coal and oth[er] products. Teleg[ram] of Donbass
(b) cooperative shops and institutions in Tamb[ov] prov. (?)
(γ) EXPERIENCE of the Kizlyar-Staroterech[naya] construction
Larin's example... "our system"... (28 F. versus 4 poods per m[on]th). "experience brilliant"...
/Chubar: such example not the only one — Manufactory
\In all forestry work"
/iron — pomade
(δ) Development of initiative...
(ε) 10 F. of salt = 1 pood of grain (Volhynia)...
(ζ) Nikolaev prov.? (Bagmen)
(η) Conclusions of Osinsky:
(commissariat food workers hinder;
there is no coordination.)
(θ) Transitional examination from 3rd to 4th year.
(ι) ["hygienic ration" — Gusev]

First printed in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XX

Printed from the manuscript