XI Congress of the RCP(b)
PROPOSAL FOR THE DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE REPORT OF THE RCP(b) DELEGATION TO THE COMMINTERN
The aim and essence of the united front tactic is to draw ever broader layers of workers into the struggle against capital, without shying away from repeatedly appealing to the leaders of the Second and Second and a Half Internationals to join this common struggle. Once the majority of workers have established their own class-based, i.e., Soviet, rather than “national,” i.e., shared with the bourgeoisie, representation—and have already overthrown the political dominance of the bourgeoisie—then, of course, the united front tactic can no longer call upon parties such as the Mensheviks (“RSDLP”) or the Socialist-Revolutionaries (“Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries”), since these parties have proven themselves to be opponents of Soviet power. Under Soviet rule, the task of expanding one’s influence among the working masses is not to appeal to the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, but rather to pursue the aforementioned path 82.
Written between March 29 and April 2, 1922.