V. I.

Lenin

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

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

Addendum to the Resolution on the Participation of the
Social-Democrats in a Provisional Revolutionary Government

Another argument in favour of participating in a provisional revolutionary
government:

Whereas the categorical refusal to participate in a provisional revolutionary
government, which is at this moment recommended by the Right Wing of our Party,
inevitably dooms the activity of the revolutionary proletariat aimed at
preparing, organising, and carrying out the armed uprising, to irresolution,
half-way policies, and disunity;—

| Written at the end of April 1905 | |
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| First published in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVI | |
| Published according to the manuscript | |

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