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* DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO I. P. RUMYANTSEV’S RESOLUTION
ON THE QUESTION OF THE PARTY’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICIES IN THE DAYS PRECEDING AND DURING THE REVOLUTION/
[April 29 – May 2, 1905!
Could we not satisfy Comrade Alexandrov by introducing the following
amendments to Schmidt’s resolution (roughly)?
1) Instead of “resolves” (the Congress), let us say: the Congress reaffirms
the time‑tested tactics of the Social‑Democrat Party, elaborating them in
detail with regard to the current situation (or something along those lines).
2) Let us add another clause to the resolution, roughly worded as follows:
**
With regard to those real and purported concessions that the tottering
autocracy is now making—concessions that benefit democracy in general
and the working class in particular—the Social‑Democrat Workers’ Party
must make use of them, on the one hand, in order to secure each improve
ment in the economic conditions and each expansion of freedom for the
people, thereby strengthening the struggle; and on the other hand, in order
to **unfailingly expose to the proletariat the reactionary aims of a govern
ment that seeks to divide, corrupt, and distract the working class from its
most pressing interests—interests that are vital to the working class in the
revolutionary moment.*****
*
The document was written on the reverse side of a quarter sheet of
writing paper, with an inscription in an unknown hand at the end of the
sentence concerning the convocation of a Constituent Assembly: … “to
explain to the workers the true meaning of such governmental measures
and to demonstrate to them the necessity, for the proletariat, of convening
a nationwide Constituent Assembly rather than establishing separate com
missions to address individual issues.” Ed.
** The beginning of this passage has been crossed out in the manuscript;
three asterisks have been placed before the next paragraph, indicating that
it was intended to be inserted into a different text. Ed.
*** Here, in the manuscript, an insertion appears, written in an un
known hand:
“through an analysis of this governmental tactic.” Ed.
**** The words “the interests of the working class” were crossed out in
the manuscript and replaced with the words “its interests.” Ed.
***** Further down, an incomplete phrase was written—and then crossed
out—by an unknown hand, having been revised three times. Ed.