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Notes for a Report at the Second All-Russia Congress of Political Education Workers
Published: First published in 1924 in the journal Molodaya Gvardiya No. 2â3. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 36, pages 549-550.
Second All-Russia Congress of Political Education Workers was held in Moscow from October 17 to 22, 1921. It was attended by 310 delegates. Leninâs report was given at the end of the afternoon sitting on October 17, 1921 (see present edition, Vol. 33, pp. 60â80).
THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE TASKS OF POLITICAL EDUCATION WORKERS
1. Not in the straightforward communist fashion, but âby outflanking and with a special approachâ.
2. Defeat and retreatâfor a new advance.
3. Who will be able to take advantage sooner, the capitalists or ourselves?
4. âPersonal incentivesâ.... Peasants, workers, experts, a mass of stupidities in our attitude to the latter.
5. To learn from capitalists and lessees.
A serious and harsh schooling.
6. Increase in production at all costs.
[BOX: You are outside the institutions? It is oven better that you are outside. ]
7. Literacy. Liquidation of illiteracy, and not in the clouds+and liquidating the Commission for Liquidation. July 19, 1920.[1]
A disgraceful list of gubernias and uyezds lagging in respect of literacy.
8. Raising of cultural level
(after every great political upheaval, a long time goes into âdigestionâ, âassimilationâ, training to make use, finishing the rough-hewn work of initial construction).
9. Improvement of legality ... teach people to struggle in a civilised way for legality, without at all forgetting the limits of legality in a revolution. Thatâs not the evil now, itâs the multitude of illegalities.
10. In particular, graft. Who has done what to fight graft.
10 bis. Bureaucracy and red tape.
11. Production propaganda, bringing to the fore economic successes possible here and now for the peasant, ability to single out, use for propaganda, follow up success.
12. Practical successes in the building of the economyâ that is the point. The touchstone of everything.
Three enemies: 13. ĎĎ Four commandments: Communist conceitâthis is the enemy {{ (1) Donât split hairs, donât be pompous in your communism, donât use great words to cover up your slackness, idleness, apathy, backwardness;
Illiteracy
Graft { (2) Wipe out illiteracy;
{ (3) Fight graft;
ĎĎ {{ ĎĎ (4) Check all your work, so that words should not remain words, by practical successes in economic construction.
- â The date of the decree on the establishment of the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission for Abolition of Illiteracy. It was set up under the Peopleâs Commissariat for Education and its five members were approved by the Council of Peopleâs Commissars. It had a standing conference of representatives from the department for work in the countryside under the Central Committee of the RCP(b), the department for work among women under the Central Committee of the RCP(b), the Central Committee __PRINTERS_P_705_COMMENT__ 45â39 of the Russian Young Communist League, the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions, the Political Administration of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic and the Universal Education Board (see Izvestia No. 162, July 24, 1920).