MATERIALS FOR THE X CONGRESS OF THE RCP(b)
PLAN FOR THE CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE REPORT REGARDING THE SUBSTITUTION OF PRODRAZVYORSTKA WITH A NATURAL TAX*
The Execution of Producers’ Agents? Cooperatives.
1) A Sea of Trivial Matters
2) They cannot be enumerated, nor can they be grouped into coherent categories.
Or: Two Groups
3) The Core Issues
(1) Technical challenges abound; countless detailed questions demand attention.
4) (2) The petty bourgeoisie will grow in strength—along with the bourgeoisie and capitalism itself.
5) Who will prevail, and who will advance more rapidly?
We are at the top—do we, the proletariat, truly stand above them? I
6) Greater output—that is the foundation.
Small-scale Industry: 1) 100 vs. 150; 100 vs. 175
Large-scale Industry: J j 200 vs. 175; EOO vs. 200; 126
Written on March 15, 1921.
First published in 1932 in the Lenin Collection XX.

Printed from the manuscript.

* See this volume, pp. 74–84. Ed.
** – versus – accordingly. Ed.