Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 1912-16


PLAN OF AN ARTICLE ON SYNDICATES[1]

1. Growth of prices. Robbery. “Strike.” Golubyatnikov....

Markov II and the Liberals

2. Syndicates (a “world-wide phenomenon”) in Europe (America) and Russia
(a) development of production
(b) home market. Poverty of farmers and peasants
(c) position of the workers. Deprived of rights
(d) political freedom.

3. Syndicates and “bureaucracy

4. Oil and sugar syndicates versus landowners... (syndicate of feudal landowners).

5. Syndicates and the Urals....

6. The official liberalism (or the liberal-bureaucratic view) (“pogrom socialism”) versus class struggle. Bureaucratic carrion and life.

7. Thieves and thief solidarity.

7 bis. Capitalism and syndicates

8. Means: (1) opening of frontiers
(2) twenty million for workers’ housing in the coal and oil areas
(3) state industry and democratic control
(5) (4) labour unions and political freedom
(4) (5) enquiry and public commissions and full exposure.


Notes

[1] The article for which this was the plan was apparently never written. The plan relates to 1912 or 1913 and was written on the same page as the next item (see p. 732 of this volume).


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