V. I.

Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

April 12 (25)-April 27 (May 10), 1905

A Remark During the Discussion of the Resolution on the Relations Between Workers and Intellectuals within the Social-Democratic
Organisations

April 22 (May 5)

I could hardly keep my seat when it was said here that there are no workers fit
to sit on the committees. The question is being dragged out; obviously there is
something the matter with the Party. Workers must be given places on the
committees. Oddly enough, there are only three publicists at the Congress, the
others being committee-men; it appears however that the publicists are for
placing the workers, whereas the committee-men for some reason are quite
wrought up over it.

The statements by Comrades Golubin [1] and Mikhailov are highly
valuable.

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Notes:
[1]
Golubin—the Bolshevik P. A. Japaridze, a delegate to the Third
Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.