Upon the foundation of consumers’ communes and upon their unification there must be built up a genuine, all-embracing, and working cooperation, taking the form of an immense organisation of consumers, which shall become an apparatus for mass distribution more perfect than any known to the history of capitalism.
As a matter of principle, the Russian Communist Party holds that the proper course in connexion with this problem of distribution is, not to scrap the cooperative apparatus, but to develop it on communist lines. The party will pursue this policy systematically. It enjoins upon all the members of the party that they shall work in the cooperatives, and (with the assistance of the trade unions) shall administer them in the communist spirit; that they shall promote independence and discipline throughout the working population united to form cooperatives; that they shall endeavour to ensure that the entire population shall enter the cooperatives, and that these cooperatives shall merge into a single great cooperative comprising the whole Soviet Republic from top to bottom; last of all, and above all, that