The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-04
BY Y. I. LENIN.
( Written in 1919
CONCLUSION.

CONCLUSION.
The rich and the scoundrels are two sides of
the same medal, the two main categores of
parasites fostered by capitalism; they are the
principal enemies of socialism The entire pop-
ulation must take them under special surveu-
lance must take them ruthlessly to task for the
slightest infraction OF the regulations or laws OF
socialist society. Any sign of weakness. hesita-
ton or sentimentality in this respect would be
the greatest crime against socialism
In order to render socialist society immune
against these parasites we must organize millions
and millions of workers and peasants to support
Voluntarily energetically and with revolutionary
enthusiasm, the accounting and controlling of
the amount Of labor and the production and dis
trfbution OF commodities And in order to Or
ganize this accounting and control make 1t
completely accessible, completely within the
power OF every honest. intelligent capable worker
and peasant we must be able to awaken their
organizing talents from their own midst must
stimulate and organize on a national scale the
spirit of emulation in achieving organizational
successes must sec TO it that the workers and
peasants understand clearly the difference be-
tween the needed advice of an educated person
and the needed control by the common" worker
and peasant of the slOvenliness so common with
Educated people.
THIS sloventness, untidiness. inaccuracy ner-
vous haste this tendency to talk instead of work
irg, to undertake everything and finish nothing
Is enc O. the attributes of educated" people ard
is by no means the result Of this bad nature and
even less OF malice. Il is the result of lifetime
OF habit, Of the very conditions under which they
work, Of fatigue, Of the abnormal division be-
tween mental and physical work etc.
Among the mistakes. deficiencies and plumbers
Of rfVr,UTiOr these kos md tI1ers I,o
gotten by the sad, but at the present moment
unavoidable. characteristics of the inteIIectuaIs
within or midst AMI the lack of sufficient con-
troll OF their organizing work by the workers, have
played quite an important role
The workers and peasants are still SHY" and
they must get rid of this shyness, and they will
undoubtedly get rid of it. 1t is impossible to
get along without the advice and the guidance.
Of the educated people, the intellectuals the spe-
cialists. Every worker and peasant who is at all
Intelligent will understand this perfectly and the
jntelectuals in our midst can not. complain of
insufficient attention and comradely respect
from the workers and peasants. But the guild
ance and advice is one thing--the organization
Of practical accounting and control is another
1ntellectuals give the best advice and guidance
but are laughably rtdlculousy, disgracefully in
capable of carrying out the advice and direc-
tions, OF exercising practical control and seeing
to it that the word is transformed into action.
This is where the leadership of the practical
organizer from among the people" from among
the workers and toing peasants, cannot be dis
pensed with. Pots are not made by gods; the
workers and peasants must particularly note this
truth They must understand now that every
thing hinges on practice, that we have entered
upon the historical period when theory turns into
practice, is animated by practice is corrected by
practice, is checked by practice 1t is the time
when Marks words: Every step of the practical
movement is worth a dozen programs" are par
ticularly true Every step towards registering
the wealthy and the scoundrels and placing them
under surveillance, towards really restraining
them and reducing their number is more i'm
portant than dozen debates on socialism. Be-
cause "an theory, my friend is gray but ever
lasting is the tree of life"
We must organize competition among the
practical workers and peasant organizers. We
must fight against every stereotyped form and
against every attempt to establish uniformity
from above as the intellectualS inclined to
do. Democratic and socialist centralism had
nothing in common with uniformity or the estab-
lishment of uniformity from above. Fundamen-
tally, radically and materially, unity is not dis
turbed by variety in detail, in local peculiarites
In methods of approach to the work, in means