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Stalin School of Falsification -- Chapter 15
Agriculture on a communal basis.
It is necessary to create separate Soviets of Deputies from among the poorest peasants. There is the
mouzhik, the middle peasant and the agricultural laborer. Even if the latter is given land, he will be
unable to build up a farm anyway. It is necessary to create model establishments out of large estates, run
on a communal basis, with the management in the hands of the Soviets of Farmhands' Deputies.
There are large estates.
Thesis VII. Immediate merger of all the banks in the country into one general national bank, over which
the Soviet of Workers' Deputies must have control.
"A bank is a form of social accounting" (Marx). The war teaches economics. Everybody knows that the
banks plunder the national forces. Banks are the nervous system, the focal point of national economic
life. We cannot take the banks into our own hands, but we advocate their merger under the control of the
Soviet of Workers' Deputies.
Thesis VIII. Not the "introduction" of socialism as our immediate task, but the immediate placing of
social production and the distribution of goods under the control of the Soviets of Workers' Deputies.
Life and the revolution are pushing the Constituent Assembly into the background. It is not important
who writes the laws down on paper, but it is important who puts them into effect. A dictatorship of the
proletariat exists, but nobody knows what to do with it (Marx . . . only that which has matured into
actuality). Capitalism has become state capitalism.
Thesis IX. The party tasks:
1. Immediate party Congress.
2. Change the party program, chiefly:
a) on imperialism,
b) on the attitude to the state, and our demand for a "Commune-State,"*
c) amend our outdated minimum program.
3. Change the party name.
Thesis X. Rebuilding of the International.
We must take the initiative in the creation of a revolutionary International, an International against the
social- chauvinists and against the "center.
Summary.
The Soviet of Workers' Deputies has been created; it wields enormous influence. Everyone instinctively
sympathizes with it. In this instinct there is more revolutionary thought than in all the revolutionary
phrases. If the Soviets of Workers' Deputies prove able to take the reins into their own hands -- the cause
of freedom is secure. Even if you write the most ideal laws -- who will execute them? The self-same
functionaries, but they are connected with the bourgeoisie.
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