Another argument in favor of participation in the provisional revolutionary government — that the unconditional refusal to participate in the provisional revolutionary government, recommended by the right wing of our party, inevitably condemns to irresolution, half-measures, and fragmentation the activity of the revolutionary proletariat in the preparation, organization, and carrying out of armed insurrection; — Written in April, no later than 19 April (2 May), 1905.

First published in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVI.

Printed from the manuscript.