V. I.

Lenin

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

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

19. Fourth Speech in the Discussion on the Agrarian Programme

August 1 (14)

Comrade Lieber proposes deletion of the clause on the cut-off lands, on
the sole grounds that he does not like the peasant committees. That is
strange. Since we have agreed on the fundamental question—that the
cut-off lands keep the peasants in bondage—the formation of
committees is only a secondary matter, and to reject the whole clause on
account of that would be illogical. It is strange, too, to hear the
question as to how we are to influence the peasant committees. I hope that
the Social-Democrats will then find it easier to arrange congresses, and
will there decide how to act in each particular case.

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