V. I.

Lenin

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

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

9

Addendum to the Resolution on the Attitude Towards the
Government’s Policy on the Eve and at the Moment of the Revolution

Couldwe not satisfy Comrade Alexandrov [1] with the following amendments to Schmidt’s [2] resolution (roughly):

1)instead of (the Congress) “resolves”: the Congress con firms the old tactics of the Social-Democrats as laid down at the Second
Congress, with a detailed explanation applicable to the present moment (or
something of the kind); 2)to add another clause to the resolution approximately as follows:

Asregards the actual and sham concessions which the weakened autocracy is now
making to the democrats in general and to the working class in particular, the
Social-Democratic party of the working class should take advantage of them in order, on the one hand, to consolidate for the people
every improvement in the economic conditions and every extension of liberties
with a view to intensifying the struggle, and on the other, steadily to expose
before the proletariat the reactionary aims of the government, which is trying
to disunite and corrupt the working class and draw its attention away from its
urgent class needs at the moment of the revolution.

| 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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Notes:
[1]
Alexandrov—D. S. Postolovsky.

[2]
Schmidt —P. P. Rumyantsev, delegate from the Voronezh Committee.