Comrade Kamenev! I am sending this for your information. I have not read it myself 194.

NB: We have acted with excessive haste — needless haste — regarding the law on natural bonuses in the form of factory products for exchange 195. Mark my words: hasty action here is harmful and will lead to no good.

All manner of postponements and restrictions of this measure can and must still be implemented.

Otherwise you will have cause to weep (and you above all, for the workers will curse you for "deception").

Your Lenin

1921

Written in April, after the 6th

First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript