Title: BANKS AND MINISTERS

Author:LENIN VLADIMIR ILYCH
Subject:SOCIALISM & RELATED SYSTEMS
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Vladimir Lenin
Banks and Ministers



Written: April 14, 1917
First Published: Pravda No. 32, April 14, 1917
Online Version: marxists.org 1999




N. N. Pokrovsky, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the present
Vice-Chairman of the Central War Industries Committee, has become a member of
the Board of the Russian Bank for Foreign Commerce. Count V. N. Kokovtsov, the
former Chairman of the Council of Ministers, has also become a member of the
Board.
These happy tidings were brought to us by last night's papers.
A minister today, a banker tomorrow; a banker today, a minister tomorrow. It is
"war to the end" - both today and tomorrow.
This state of affairs prevails not only in Russia, but in every other country
where Capital rules. A handful of bankers, who have the whole world in their
grip, are making a fortune out of the war.
But Pokrovsky and Kokovtsov, we may be told, were ministers during the old
regime, and we are now living in a regenerated Russia.
We will answer with a question:
In how many banks do the present ministers, Guchkov, Tereshchenko, and Konovalov
- have an interest (in the capacity of directors, shareholders, or actual
owners)?
Our comrades, the bank employees (who, by the way, should organise a union of
their own as soon as possible), would do well to gather material on this subject
and publish it in the labour press.





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