V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

AMENDMENTS TO THE THESES OF THE C.C. COMMISSION
...under the existing conditions of payment for labour, the workers were not and could not be interested in the results of their labour and in the improvement of methods of production. Owing to the three-year war situation and the extreme impoverishment of the country, it is impossible to draw up and carry out a single economic plan which would embrace and co-ordinate the various branches of the national economy.
To prevent a further decline of the national economy, it is necessary to reorganise on the following principles:
a) The state, in the person of the Supreme Economic Council and the local bodies, concentrates under its direct management a definite number of large enterprises, or enterprises which for some reason are important from the state point of view, as well as auxiliary enterprises connected with them; the principle of combining enterprises which mutually supplement each other must be widely applied.
b) These enterprises shall be run on the basis of exact commercial accounting, i.e., all outlays on production must be fully covered by the output obtained.
c) The starting and running of enterprises by the Supreme Economic Council and its local bodies is permissible only within the limits in which, in accordance with the general state plan, the said enterprises will be provided with material, food and money resources, both from the all-state bodies and from other sources (self-procurement, the free market, etc.).
d) For the purpose of supplementing the resources which are lacking to what the state provides, the enterprises (or their managing bodies) are granted the right to realise part of the products of their own production for the acquisition of the missing items of supply, both at home and abroad; raw materials and fuel to be procured by their own apparatus, and food through the Central Union of Consumers’ Societies.
e) All forms of workers’ supply are to be included in wages; the workers of the said group of enterprises must be ensured a supply on a scale that will interest them in production and stimulate initiative for raising productivity, but in any case not below the average subsistence minimum.
Supply is to be distributed among individual workers and groups of them (working on the job, piece-work, etc.) in accordance with the production results achieved by them.
Lenin Miscellany
LENIN MISCELLANY
[both] with products [and] with clothing, etc. (6)
f) The supply of the workers is to be effected by all supply bodies through the factory managements, the administration, which receives the necessary supplies only on condition that it gives commitments to the higher body. In distribution, the factory managements are bound by the norms established by the trade unions and the People’s Commissariat for Food, as the case may be. At the direct disposal of the factory managements, for unforeseen cases and for bonuses exceeding the norms, there shall be set aside natural and money funds, for which the factory managements shall account in the order of subsequent control (Voting on this clause gave 2 and 2).
4. All other enterprises not included in the above-mentioned groups must be leased to co-operatives, associations and other unions, as well as to private individuals, on the basis provided for by the decree on leases and the instructions of the Supreme Economic Council. The Soviet bodies must unhesitatingly and energetically put into effect this decree on the leasing of those enterprises which cannot be started and maintained by the Soviet economic bodies, thereby helping to relieve the state apparatus of small enterprises and factories.
5. Enterprises which remain unleased and which the state does not take upon itself to run are subject to closure, and the workers and employees are to be distributed among the working enterprises; those remaining without work are to be transferred to [the existing all-state supply] other work.
6. 1. Conditions must be created for handicraft and small-scale industry under which handicraftsmen and artisans could [quietly] properly develop their production and freely dispose of the products of their labour.
2. In developing and organising small-scale and handicraft industry, we must definitely and firmly proceed along the path of co-operation of the small producers, combining, where economically and technically expedient, the co-operatively organised handicraft industry with large industrial enterprises.
3. It is necessary to create the most favourable conditions primarily for those branches of small-scale and handicraft industry which serve the needs of large-scale industry and peasant farming, or work on state assignments for the consumers’ co-operative societies.