Date: 1922-11-15
Source: ru:PSS/v54

Source: PSS, Volume 54

For a long time to come, there will continue to be doubts, uncertainties, underhanded maneuvers, betrayals, and the like. The second condition will persist until the very end of the dictatorship—and thus cannot be regarded as a condition of the dictatorship itself.

Now, turning to the second point, to the third paragraph at the end of the article, and to the second-to-last paragraph.

“Class struggle… is no more grotesque than the relations it expresses” 510.

This is incorrect—not merely grotesque, but fundamentally wrong. It is not just grotesque; it is scientifically flawed. This is not class struggle.

Next: “A scientific laboratory is a tightly knit collective, operating in a coordinated, solidary, and consciously unified manner across all its constituent elements.”

This is incorrect. Such a state cannot arise before the abolition of classes.

This approach is not grounded in science; it is driven by sentiment—until the abolition of classes, when everyone must “share” everything.

This is incorrect—and in practice, highly detrimental.

Take, for example, the Politburo and its female secretaries. Should everyone “share” everything—scientifically speaking? You yourself would hardly insist on such a thing; you’ve become carried away.

Best regards! Your Lenin

in the journal

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Written on November 15, 1922.

First published in 1929.

“Proletarian Revolution,” No. 10

Printed from the manuscript