Addendum to the Draft Regulations on Subbotniks (original) (raw)
V. I. Lenin
Addendum to the Draft Regulations on Subbotniks[1]
Written: Written not before the end of March 1920
Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Printing, Progress Publishers,1971, Moscow,Volume 42, page 187a.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: D. Walters
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I. Aims And Purpose Of Subbotniks
| 1) Subbotniks are a form of propaganda of the ideas of compulsory labour service and self-organisation of the working class. | |
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| 2) Subbotniks should be a laboratory of forms of communist labour. | +a) Higher labour productivity b) " work discipline |
| 3) Subbotniks must be started primarily for important and urgent jobs. | c) implementation of dictatorship of the proletariat |
| 4) Subbotniks should yield results not below established output rates, but participants should try to exceed these rates. | d) leadership of the peasantry |
| e) combating famine and economic chaos |
Notes
[1] The “Regulations on Subbotniks” were drafted by A. N. Sokolov, a member of the staff of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.). They were prepared, apparently, for the first anniversary of the launching of the subbotniks (anniversary date May 10, 1920).