V. I.

Lenin

Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

July 17 (30)-August 10 (23), 1903

2. Draft Resolution on the Place of the Bund in the Party

Takinginto consideration that the fullest and closest unity of the
militant proletariat is absolutely essential both for the purpose of the
earliest achievement of its ultimate aim and in the interests of an
unswerving political and economic struggle in conditions of the existing
society; that,in particular, complete unity between the Jewish and non-Jewish
proletariat is moreover especially necessary for a successful struggle
against anti-Semitism, this despicable attempt of the government and the
exploiting classes to exacerbate racial particularism and national enmity; thatthe complete amalgamation of the Social-Democratic organisations of
the Jewish and non-Jewish proletariat can in no respect or manner restrict
the independence of our Jewish comrades in conducting propaganda and
agitation in one language or another, in publishing literature adapted to
the needs of a given local or national movement, or in advancing such
slogans for agitation and the direct political struggle that would be an
application and development of the general and fundamental principles of
the Social-Democratic programme regarding full equality and full freedom
of language, national culture, etc., etc.; the Congress emphatically repudiates federation as the organisational
principle of a Russian party and endorses the organisational principle
adopted as the basis of the Rules of 1898, i.e., autonomy for the national
Social-Democratic organisations in matters concerning... [ Here the manuscript breaks off.– Ed . ]

| Written in June-July 1903 | Published according to the manuscript |
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| First published in 1927 in Lenin Miscellany VI | |

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