If I don't hear anything from the Politburo soon, I'm going to have to start making up policy on the hoof. Not that that's anything I haven't had to do before, of course. Some of the movement's best ideas were just inspired improvisations - in fact, the New Economic Policy was originally just a put-down to a particularly annoying heckler. (Ruddy kulaks.)
It's at times like this that I miss Trotsky. He was very accomplished when it came to sorting things out on the phone. He must have loved Vivaldi, that's all I can think.