V. I. Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905


 

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SPEECHES IN THE DEBATE ON THE ADDITIONAL RESOLUTION TO THE PARTY RULES ON PERIODIC CONFERENCES OF REPRESENTATIVES OF VARIOUS PARTY ORGANISATIONS{1}

APRIL 22 (MAY 5)
1

I should have no objection to this, but isn’t the C.C. being burdened with too much work by being asked to organise these conferences?

I propose that instead of “the C.C. should organise” we say: “both the Central and the local committees should organise”, and instead of “conferences of representatives of local committees”, say: “conferences of representatives of various organisations of our Party”.

2

That is right. I am against any additions which introduce nothing but formalism and red tape.

Trety ocherednoi syezd R.S.D.R P. Polny tekst protokolov, Central Committee publication, Geneva, 1905
Printed from the text of the book

Notes

{1} The draft resolution said: “Recognising the unification of Party work to be an urgent demand of Party life, recognising that such unification is best achieved in the process of work and in joint discussion of general Party slogans by as many Party workers as possible—the Third Party Congress recognises it as desirable that the C.C. should, for these purposes, organise conferences of representatives of local committees.”

Lenin motioned amendments to the resolution and supported L. B. Krasin (Zimin) and D. S. Postolovsky (Mikhailov), who opposed the addenda motioned by G. L. Shklovsky (Dedushkin) and A. I. Rykov (Sergeyev) (see Trety syezd R.S.D.R.P., p. 342). Lenin’s amendments were adopted. p. 161

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