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From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965
Vol. 32, pp. 320-28.
Translated from the Russian
Edited by Yuri Sdobnikov
PLAN OF THE PAMPHLET THE TAX IN KIND .
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General significance of the tax. | ||
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[The international situation and internal relations. |
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The substitution of a tax for the appropriation system, its significance in principle: from "War" Communism to a proper socialist foundation.
The economic essence and foundation of socialism is
neither The appropriation system is not an "ideal", but a sad and bitter necessity. The opposite view is a dangerous mistake.
The appropriation system and the "apparatus". We
should have perished long ago but for the "apparatus".
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improve it we shall perish before we manage to lay the
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Type of economic relations or the economic system
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* Either or. There is no third road. --Ed. ** What is "politics"? --Ed. *** Counterpart. --Ed. |
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In April 1918 and in April 1920, we imagined transition
from war to peace-time construction to be a simple one
on the same lines of policy.
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NB +Note. Significance of the political crisis in spring (Feb.-March) 1921 ("transitions") and Party crisis (Nov. or Sept. 1920-March 1921). Adapt the Party's top section to its mass and vice versa? The Party to the masses (proletariat+then the peasantry) or vice versa. | ||||
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State capitalism not ter- |
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Tax in kind and trade. |
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These (3 and 4) forms are weak, because we are weak and
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Combating profiteering?
Calculation of forces. Sober approach and fervent dedica- tion.
IV Conclusion Etwa: Transition to politics.
Economics in the spring of 1921 transformed into
politics:
Role of Socialist-Revolutionaries + Mensheviks (Dan,
Rozhkov
Milyukov is more intelligent than Chernov and Martov:
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Pessimism or optimism? A most sober appraisal of the evil and the difficulties.
1) "Trade". Quid est? 2) Small industry. Where are the raw materials? 3) Exchange. 4) Capitalism. 5) State capitalism. 6) Local initiative. 7) Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries + non-Party people. |
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The documents are preliminary material for Lenin's pamphlet, The Tax in Kind (The Significance of the New Policy and Its Conditions).
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The reference is to paragraph 2 of the economic section of the Party Programme adopted by the Eighth Party Congress. See K.P.S.S. v rezolutsiakh . . . (The C.P.S.U. in the Resolutions and Decisions of Congresses, Conferences and C.C. Plenary Meetings, Part 1, 1954, p. 21).
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Figures for 1920 showing the relative population of the imperialist countries and the colonies; out of the world's 1,750
million people, 250 million, or 1/7, lived in the imperialist countries, and 1,000 million, or 4/7, in the colonies.
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The first document is an initial plan of the pamphlet; on its basis, Lenin worked out a more detailed plan -- Document Two -- and also Documents Three and Four. The third document also includes a summary of the part of the pamphlet dealing with state capitalism; and the fourth is an outline of its final part: "Political Summary and Deductions".
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