Question from the floor. Does control over the syndicates and banks imply measures recommended only on a state-wide scale or are such measures as control over private enterprises, etc., also included?
No, that is not here, because this living practice has been given expression in another resolution where it is in a better perspective.{1} This particular resolution deals with another subject—the steps to be taken towards socialism.
Solovyov motions an amendment: a few words about the characteristic of the state in this transition period—that is very essential, because it determines the overall direction of the activities of the Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies....
Lenin objects to Comrade Solovyov’s amendment:
In some resolutions we keep coming up against concrete definitions. The Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies can operate without the police, because they have their armed soldiers. The Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies are institutions which can substitute for the old civil service.
The old agrarian programme ...{2} has not been realised, but we should say: “The Party demands a peasant-proletarian republic without a police, a standing army or a civil service.” Consequently, the conference has predetermined this issue,{3} so all we have to do now is to formulate.
| First published in 1925 in the book Petrogradskaya obshchegorodskaya i Vserossiiskaya konferentsii R.S.D.R.P.(B.) v aprele 1917 goda | Printed from a typewritten copy of the minutes |
{1} See present edition, Vol. 24, p. 295.—Ed.
{2} One word is illegible in the minutes.—Ed.
{3} See present edition, Vol. 24, p. 280.—Ed.
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