Date: 1921
Source: ru:PSS/v42

Communism and Syndicalism

Communism guides the mass of non‑party members and elevates them—through education—to the task of managing the entire national economy.

Syndicalism entrusts the management of industry by sector to the mass of non‑party members.

The Program of the RCP.

What is the Party for? Splitting up…

Bukharin “outshone” Trotsky.

“Soft wax”… Unprincipled demagogy.

The Logic of Factional Struggle.

Let us all unite—perhaps then we can gather enough votes… Who has the most?

In general, mere blather (as with Bukharin).

** Confer – compare. Ed.

*** Versus – in contrast to this. Ed.

Bukharin is no Shlyapnikov: a leader of the syndicalists? “Ninochka”?

“Physical strength of mind” (Lassalle) and of character?

Do not defend the extremes of bureaucratism and appointment-based governance.

{ Who is compromising the Red Army? And what about appointment-based appointments?

Let us refrain from concocting various theories about “new tasks,” and instead work together in harmony, guided by Rudzutak’s theses.

Anarchism + Syndicalism.

The Party’s Crisis: The Entente and the Socialist-Revolutionaries—uniting ranks both outside and within; discipline—everyone at their post—focusing attention, exercising oversight, etc. By the Party Congress, let us have healed these ills.

Written in January, no later than 1921.

First published in 1959 in Volume XXXVI of the Lenin Collection.

Printed from the manuscript.