V. I. Lenin

DRAFT THESES
ON THE ROLE AND FUNCTIONS
OF THE TRADE UNIONS
UNDER THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY



Written December 30, 1921--
January 4, 1922
 
Published with amendments
January 17, 1922
in Pravda No. 12

Printed from the manuscript
 
 
 
 
 



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1971

Vol. 42, pp. 374-86.

Translated from the Russian
by Bernard Isaacs


First printing 1969
Second printing 1971



Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (July 2000)


DRAFT THESES ON THE ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE TRADE
UNIONS UNDER THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY[441] .   .   .   .   .   .


374

1.

The New Economic Policy and the Trade Unions .   .   .   .

375

2.
 

State Capitalism in the Proletarian State and the Trade
Unions .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


375

3.
 

The State Enterprises That Are Being Put on a Profit
Basis and the Trade Unions   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


376

4.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Essential Difference Between the Class Struggle of
the Proletariat in a State Which Recognises Private Own-
ership of the Land, Factories, etc., and Where Political
Power Is in the Hands of the Capitalist Class, and the
Class Struggle of the Proletariat in a State Which Does
Not Recognise Private Ownership of the Land and the
Majority of the Large Enterprises and Where Political
Power Is in the Hands of the Proletariat .   .   .   .   .   .


 
 
 
 
 
 
376

5.

Reversion to Voluntary Trade Union Membership .  .   .   .

378

6.

The Trade Unions and the Management of Industry .   .   .

378

7.
 
 

The Role and Functions of the Trade Unions in the Busi-
ness and Administrative Organisations of the Proletar-
ian State  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


 
379

8.
 

Contact with the Masses -- the Fundamental Condition
for All Trade Union Activity .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


381

9.
 

The Contradictions in the Status of the Trade Unions
Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat .   .   .   .   .   .


382

10.

The Trade Unions and the Specialists  .   .   .   .   .   .   .

383

 11.
 

The Trade Unions and Petty-Bourgeois Influences on the
Working Class .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


385

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