Date: 1921
Source: ru:PSS/v42

Source: CW vol 42

Trotsky:

** In fine – in the end. Ed.

*** Fundamentally incorrect! Ed.

**** From the outset; in principle. Ed.

thesis 7 (i. f. p. 8): “has ceased” “class economic struggle.” Incorrect!

thesis 7 (i. f. p. 9): “all > truncated, unsystematic”??? Incorrect.

thesis 8 i. f. task: “organize production” (italic) = program ββ thesis 9. (p. 10):… “directly” (nonsense!)

thesis 9 (i. f.) “cannot be” specialists in production organization and in the trade union movement (nonsense! Can!!).

thesis 10. “concentration in the hands of the unions of all management of production” (= program) No. Incorrect (program = “to achieve actual concentration and not production”)… (“each branch of industry” thesis 10 i. f.)

(γγ)

NB

(not this)

thesis 12 i. f. “develop a spirit of corporate exclusiveness” “hostility to new workers”

…“support vestiges of guild practices”… thesis 14. Ryazanov retains for the unions “defense or upholding of their material and spiritual interests” “Soviet trade-unionism.”

Nonsense. Ryazanov is right here.

151 This refers to the resolution of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on December 7, 1920, on the question of the conflict between the Communist seamen and the Communist faction of the Zektrans meeting, which is quoted by Trotsky in paragraph 18 of his pamphlet. This resolution was proposed by Bukharin and carried with the support of Trotsky, against Lenin and his supporters.

The conflict arose from dissatisfaction with the bureaucratic methods of work of Zektrans, which did not implement the decisions of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) and the Fifth All-Russian Conference of Trade Unions on the transition to democratic methods of work.

thesis 20 i. f. the working “masses” should “get to know” the manager and “renew, strengthen their trust” in him.

[v.v.[50], the subject is not correct. He must win it, not she him] “Appointment” = inevitable supplement to “production impotence”?

thesis 26. The struggle against bureaucracy… above all “an integral part” of the work of the trade unions? (Blundered!)

Not so much a proliferation of control bodies as a correction. (Very good! For the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate!)

* Summa summarum – the general conclusion. Ed.

VI. Practical Conclusions

* I see what is good, I praise it, but I am drawn to what is bad (Ovid. “Metamorphoses”). Ed.

thesis 41. Consumption – equalization.

Production – shock work. (Incorrect.)

“Factional attacks” in the theses:

“backward” (1); “professional conservatism in the leading stratum” (8); “the VTUC entirely outside the main economic work” (9); “to a lesser extent changed the personnel of the leading bodies” (8); αα (thesis 6); ββ (thesis 8); γγ (thesis 10); δδ (thesis 11 beginning); εε (thesis 12 i. f.); ζζ (thesis 15 i. f.); ηη (thesis 24); θθ (thesis 29 i. f.)