Lenin: TO N. I. BUKHARIN (original) (raw)
TO N. I. BUKHARIN
Written: Written in March–April 1921
Published: First published in 1925 in Lenin Miscellany IV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1971, Moscow,Volume 36, page 539.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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The question is of theoretical interest too:
the proletarian state power_holds_
a material base{{ factories railways foreign trade.
Consequence: in its hands is a commodity stock and its_wholesale_ (railway) transport.
What is the proletarian state power doing with this stock?
Selling it:
(α) to the workers by hand and brain for money,
or for their labour without money;
(β) to the peasants for grain.
How does it sell? Through whom?
Through a commission agent (=a trader) for his percentage on commission.
It gives preference to the co-operatives (trying to organise the entire population in them).
Why is this impossible? Yet this is capitalism+socialism.