V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v16;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

THESES OF MY REPORT

1. At the Second Congress the Iskra minority already displayed lack of principle (or fell into error) by entering into a coalition with their ideological opponents at the elections.
2. After the Congress, even in the League, the minority defended the continuity of the old Iskra, but in practice moved further and further away from it.
3. Plekhanov, at the time of his turn (No. 52), clearly saw that the minority constituted the opportunist wing of the Party and were fighting like anarchist individualists.
(Contra Vasilyev and Lenin on the subject of circle spirit.)¹
4. The defence, justification, and elevation to a principle of our organisational backwardness and the organisational disruption of the Congress is already opportunism. No one will now venture to support in general the theses on the programme versus the Rules, etc.
5. The accusations against the majority of ignoring the economic struggle, of Jacobinism, of ignoring the workers’ independent activity, are nothing but a repetition, utterly groundless, of the Rabocheye Dyelo attacks on Iskra.
6. The fear of the Third Congress and the struggle against it completes the false position both of the minority and of the conciliators.
7. In the plan of the Zemstvo campaign the Iskra Editorial Board adopted an especially false and harmful, undoubtedly opportunist, tactical line, by raising the question of panic, by extolling agreement with the Zemstvo people on peaceful manifestations as a new type.
The plan of the campaign is connected with the erroneous resolution of Starover.

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¹ This refers to the draft resolution and the dissenting opinion of the representatives on the Party Council, Lepik and Lengnik (Vasilyev), submitted by them at the session of the Party Council on January 28 and 30, 1904 (see Works, Vol. VI, pp. 144-48).