V. I.

Lenin

OUTLINE OF MY TALK [2]

Outline of My Talk

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1. Already at the Second Congress the minority Iskra ists
displayed instability of principle (or went astray) and in the
elections found themselves in coalition with their ideological
opponents.

2. After the Congress too—even at the League—the minority
championed the continuity of the old Iskra but actually
shifted further and further away from it.

3. Plekhanov at the time of his swing-over (No. 52) saw clearly that
the minority constituted the opportunist wing of the Party and were
fighting like anarchistic individualists.

(Contra Vasilyev and Lenin in the matter of circle spirit.) [1]

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4. Defending, justifying, elevating to a principle our organisational
backwardness and the organisational nullification of the Congress
already constitutes opportunism. No one will today venture to
support, as such, theses on programme versus Rules, etc.

5. To accuse the majority of ignoring the economic struggle, of
Jacobinism, of ignoring the workers’ independent initiative, is
nothing but totally groundless repetition of the attacks of
Rabocheye Dyelo on Iskra .

6. Fear of the Third Congress and opposition to it completes the false
position of both the minority and the conciliators.

7. In the Zemstvo campaign plan the Iskra editors have
embarked on a particularly false and harmful, an undoubtedly opportunist tactical course by bringing up the question of panic
and extolling agreements with the Zemstvo-ists about peaceful
demonstrations as being a new type.

The campaign plan is connected with Starover’s mistaken resolution.