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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
more close relation with the food co-operatives to assure ample food
for the Red Army and the masses. The commissar of national economy
shall map out a plan for the more important branches of agriculture,
as food and cotton.
The tasks of Soviet economic reconstruction rest on the need for
the revival of the handicraft industry and the needs of the war. In
elaborating the plans for economic reconstruction, consideration
must be taken of the needs of the revolutionary war, the needs of
the masses and the possibility of exports to the White regions. Maximum
energy shall be devoted to the leading industries as tungsten,
coal, iron, lime, agricultural instruments, tobacco, paper, cloth, sugar,
drugs, nitrate-salt, lumber, camphor, etc. Production co-operatives
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shall be organized for these industries, drawing in the unemployed,
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independent workers and peasants. Private investment being permitted,
the Soviets shall not monopolize all the productive enterprises,
but concentrate on those beneficial to the state. The vital
means to raise production are more incentive to labour, competition
in production, reward to those who have made achievements on the
production front.
The exchange of Soviet surpluses (e.g., food, tungsten, lumber,
tobacco, paper) for salt, cloth, oils, etc., from the White regions, as
may be made possible through the development of foreign trade,
serves as an important NOT lever in breaking FOR through the blockade of the
enemy and in promoting the development of our national economy.
The commercial institutions of the Soviets shall be consolidated
while private merchants COMMERCIAL
will be encouraged for exportation and importation
of necessaries. Large numbers of workers and peasants
shall be organized in consumption co-operatives to be set up everywhere,
and thus enabled to buy cheap, but still sell their products at
higher prices to DISTRIBUTION
the White regions, a possibility that plays a vital
role in the economic reconstruction of the Soviets. The Soviets must
strengthen their leadership of the central consumption co-operatives,
and see to it that such centers be established where they do not yet
exist.
The solution of the capital problem involved in economic reconstruction
is found in the absorption of capital from the masses
through the development credit co-operatives which will smash usury
to pieces. The money of the masses will flow into the state enterprises
through such channels as economic bonds, subscriptions, to
the stock of the state bank, etc. Capital in the Soviet districts will
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