[October or November 1921]

Plan of the short article:
"The Commercial Setting of the Matter."
Is this suitable as a slogan?
"Commerce"? = capitalism.
(a) "State capitalism." Its advantages.
(P) War conditions precluded "commerce."
(?) The transition to "communism" very often (and for military
considerations; and due to almost absolute destitution; and by mistake,
due to a series of mistakes) was made without intermediate stages
of socialism (communism vs * socialism).
(5) "Accounting and control"?
(e) It must pay its way.
s ' c + v + m m — accumulation **
— maintenance of the state "War" = dictatorship of the proletariat.
'p (a) Policy 25. X. 1917 — 5. I. 1918 2 figurative ^ Weltpolitik. Brest Peace ****.
(m) Civil War.
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(S) War with "economic crisis," i.e., with pettybourgeois spontaneity? with postwar laxity? with disintegra
tion? with incompetence?
Condition for victory in war: greatest exertion.
Commercial setting =
= greatest exertion
= reduction of enterprises to a minimum, their concen tration
= verification of results
= "efficiency" (khozyaystvennost').

* — versus — in comparison with; in relation to.
** — accumulation.
*** — General Theoretical Considerations.
**** — World politics. Treaty of Brest.
General 'j
Theoretical
***

Either — or:
aut * 100,000 + 500,000
16 h. 7 4 poods to the peasant? 3 aut greatest exertion, reduction, "pressure" (?)
Weary of laziness, slovenliness, petty speculation, theft,
laxity.
Why not "efficiency"? — freedom of trade
— state capi talism
— monetary system.