Plan for the short article “The Commercial Organization of Affairs”
Is this a suitable slogan? “Commerce”? — Capitalism, (a) “State Capitalism.” Its advantages, (?) The state of war precluded “commerce.”
(?) The transition to “communism” was very often—both for military reasons and due to near‑total destitution, as well as through error, through a series of missteps—carried out without intermediate stages of socialism (communism versus socialism). (?) “Accounting and Control”? (?) It must pay off.
c + ? + m General | m – accumulation” ^\ Theoretical- r»
– the substance of the state / sches*** J “War” = the dictatorship of the proletariat.
(a) Politics, 25 October 1917 – 5 January 1918
Global (?) World Politics. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
\ Strategic (Y) Civil War.
1 forms (^) War against the “economic crisis”—that is, against petty-bourgeois spontaneity? Against postwar laxity? Against disintegration? Against incompetence?

* - versus - in comparison with; in relation to. Ed.
** - accumulation. Ed.
*** - General theoretical considerations. Ed.
**** - World politics. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Ed.

The condition for victory in war: supreme exertion.
The commercial organization of affairs =
= supreme exertion
= reduction of enterprises to a minimum, their concentration
= verification of outcomes
= “economic efficiency.” Either/or: aut* 100,000 + 500,000
16 hours, 1/4 f. per peasant? 195 aut—supreme exertion, contraction, “pressure”? We are tired of laziness, carelessness,
petty speculation, theft, and moral decay. Why not “economic efficiency”? — freedom of trade
— state capitalism
— the monetary system.
Written in October or November 1921.
First published in 1959 in Volume XXXVI of the Lenin Collection

Printed from manuscript

* - either/or. Ed.