**Taking into account:**

1. that on the part of the right wing of our party, attempts begun as far back as the time of "economism" have systematically continued to sow enmity and distrust among party members – workers and intellectuals, attempts to depict our party organizations as purely intellectual in character, an advantage which enemies of social-democracy skillfully exploit, – attempts to accuse social-democratic organizations of seeking to fetter the independent activity of the working class with party discipline, – attempts to flaunt the slogan of the elective principle, mostly without serious steps toward its implementation;

2. that the complete supremacy of the elective principle, possible and necessary under free political conditions, is unattainable under autocracy, – but that even under autocracy the application of the elective system would be possible on a considerably broader scale than is presently the case, were it not for the impediment posed by that formal vagueness of party organization and that actual disorganization of it, for which the party is indebted to the right wing of social-democracy. —

**The III Congress of the RSDRP**, recognizing as its task through a series of organizational reforms to prepare conditions for the forthcoming congresses to achieve genuine implementation of the elective principle within possible limits in party life, reminds once again the conscious supporters of the workers' social-democratic party of their task: to strengthen by all means the party's connection with the masses of the working class, bringing ever broader strata of proletarians and semi-proletarians to complete social-democratic consciousness, developing their revolutionary social-democratic independent activity, taking care in the selection by the working masses of the largest possible number of workers capable of directing the movement and party organizations, as members of local centers and of the all-party center, creating as many workers' organizations as possible entering into our party, striving to ensure that workers' organizations unwilling or unable to enter the party, at least affiliate themselves with it.

**Submitted 22 April (5 May)**