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Amendments and Remarks to the Draft Declaration of The Soviet Delegation at the Genoa Conference
Published: First published in 1964 in the Fifth Russian Edition of the Collected Work, Vol. 45. Printed from the secretaryâs notes (typewritten copy).
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, page 410.
All Leninâs amendments and remarks to the draft declaration for the Soviet delegation to the Genoa Conference submitted by Chicherin were taken into consideration. This declaration was read out by Chicherin at the first plenary session of the Genoa Conference on April 10, 1922.
Comrade Molotov
With reference to Comrade Chicherinâs motion entitled âElements of a first speech at the Conferenceâ I propose the following amendments:
1) Lines 7 and 8 down on the first pageâI propose that we speak about âsystems of propertyâ and not just politico-economic systems.[1]
2) On the same page, lines 8 and 9 upâall mention of âinevitable forcible revolution and the use of sanguinary struggleâ must definitely be thrown out; instead we should speak only of the fact that we Communists do not share the views of the pacifistsâa fact which is sufficiently well known from communist literatureâbut having come here as merchants, we positively consider it our duty to give our fullest support to any attempts at a peaceful settlement of outstanding problems.
3) On the same page, 2nd and 3rd lines upâthe words stating that our âhistoric conception includes the use of forcible measuresâ should definitely be deleted.
4) Page 2, 2nd and 3rd lines downâthe words about our historic conception being definitely based on the inevitability of new world wars should be definitely deleted.
Under no circumstance should such frightful words be used, as this would mean playing into the hands of our opponents. We should confine ourselves only to mentioning that the views of the Communists do not coincide with the views of such pacifists as the states we are beginning negotiations with, such statesmen as Henderson, Keynes, etc., but that we consider it our duty, in order to achieve the economic agreement we are desirous of concluding, to do everything in our power for the broadest possible fulfilment of at least a certain part of this pacifist programme.
Lenin
- â Lenin is referring to the following draft speech submitted by Chicherin: âWe attach the greatest importance to Point One of the Cannes resolution concerning mutual recognition of the political and economic systems in both camps of the present-day worldâ (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism- Leninism of the CC of the CPSU). This text in Chicherinâs draft is marked off by Lenin in the margin. The words in Chicherinâs draft referred to in points 2, 3 and 4 of Leninâs remarks are underlined by Lenin.