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Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

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390V. I. LENINhands. Then we shall even be able <strong>to</strong> draw advisers fromthe former millionaires. We invite anybody who wants<strong>to</strong> work as long as he does not try <strong>to</strong> reduce every revolutionaryenterprise <strong>to</strong> mere words; that is something we shallnot stand for. We use the words “dicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>of</strong> the proletariat”in all seriousness and we shall effect that dicta<strong>to</strong>rship.We wanted <strong>to</strong> take the line <strong>of</strong> agreement with thebanks, we gave them loans <strong>to</strong> finance fac<strong>to</strong>ries, but theycarried out sabotage on an unprecedented scale, and practicalexperience has forced us <strong>to</strong> adopt other measures <strong>of</strong>control.A comrade from the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries hassaid that in principle they would vote for the immediatenationalisation <strong>of</strong> the banks and afterwards work out practicalmeasures in the shortest possible time. But he waswrong in that, because our draft does not contain anythingbut principles. The Supreme Economic Council is waiting<strong>to</strong> discuss them, but if the decree is not approved the bankswill immediately do everything <strong>to</strong> further disrupt theeconomy.The adoption <strong>of</strong> the decree is urgent, otherwise oppositionand sabotage will ruin us. (S<strong>to</strong>rmy applause.)Pravda No. 216,December 29 (16), 1917and Izvestia No. 253,December 16, 1917Published according <strong>to</strong> Minutes<strong>of</strong> the All-Russia Central ExecutiveCommittee <strong>of</strong> Soviets <strong>of</strong> Workers’,Soldiers’, Peasants’ and Cossacks’Deputies, Second Convocation,Moscow, 1918

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