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Summary of Lenin's Remarks at the Conference of the Delegates to the Tenth Congress of the RKP(b)—Supporters of the Platform of Ten

13 March 1921 13 March 1921

Is the majority entitled to be a majority[?]. If it wants to be, then how should it be done[?]. For example, [of] three hundred, two hundred are the majority, and one hundred the minority. There arises the question of a split. A union is possible.

If the majority does not come to an arrangement, then the minority can win. This does happen. We are not a faction. We came as a faction, but we do not constitute a faction here. We should use our right in elections. In elections of delegates we have fought to win at the congress. And this we should do.

When the discussion got under way, then all saw the political mistake, and rightly so. It was a most dangerous discussion. The masses have taken it up, so they, too, have disagreements.

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We must be firm, hard. Those who hesitate will join us.

Now as to Kronshtadt. The danger there lies in the fact that their slogans are not Socialist-Revolutionary, but anarchistic.

An All-Russian Congress of Producers

A slogan popular in 1918–20 among anti-Bolshevik workers and socialist intellectuals eager to circumvent the soviet apparatus, which was completely under Communist control.

—this is not a Marxist but a petty bourgeois idea.

If you wish to introduce the opposition into the Central Committee to further its disintegration, then permit us not to permit it.

The “Workers' Opposition” expresses the vacillations of the nonparty masses.

The “Democratic Center” exists only in Moscow and unites only the intelligentsia. But it hinders work.

Moscow is the best city in the sense that it has a mass of intelligentsia, creators of theses, ex-officials, etc.

I have been accused: [“]You are a son of a bitch for letting the discussion get out of hand.[”] Well, try to stop Trotsky. How many divisions does one have to send against him?

The organization [apparat] is bad. Everyone hates the giavki.

Giavki were the organs of the Supreme Council of the National Economy in charge of particular branches of industry.

But no one agrees to disperse them. It is politics for the organization, not the organization …

Our policy. From the point of view of the interests of the vanguard to the rear guard, of the whole class toward the peasantry [sic].

Yesterday about trade unions, and today to revamp the whole [military] command staff. Where are we to get the commissars[?].

We will come to terms with Trotsky.

The apparatus is for politics, not politics for the apparatus.

Trotsky wants to resign. Over the past three years I have had lots of resignations in my pockets. And I have let some of them just lie there in store. Bu. Trotsky is a temperamental man with military experience. He is in love with the organization, but as for politics, he hasn't got a clue.

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Document TitleSummary of Lenin's Remarks at the Conference of the Delegates of the Tenth Congress of the RKP(b)—Supporters of the Platform of Ten

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RepositoryRTsKhIDNI

ID #f.2, op.1, d.24510

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Date1921 Mar 13

AOC VolumeThe unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive

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