...with Unshlikht and I ask you to find ten minutes for a conversation with him not by telephone. As for the question in essence - I think I agree with you. I now have a desire to write a small article on themes close to those you raised, but still I can hardly do this earlier than in two weeks. Therefore it would perhaps be extremely useful if you immediately went into open battle in the press, named this Menshevik, explained the malicious White Guard character of his speech, and addressed a forceful appeal to the party to pull itself together. The term "state capitalism", in my opinion (about which I have repeatedly argued with Bukharin), is the only theoretically correct one and necessary to force the ossified communists to understand that the new policy is being pursued in earnest. But, of course, such malicious helpers of the White Guards as all Mensheviks are can pretend not to understand that state capitalism in a state with proletarian power can exist only limited both in time and in area of distribution and in conditions of its application, method of supervision over it, etc. 219.

21/I - 22. Lenin

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