V. I. Lenin

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

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905

20

TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE
CONGRESS {1}

Iconsider it timely to adopt a resolution (on the attitude of the workers
to the intellectuals).

Lenin

| Written on April 20 (May 3), 1905 | Printed from the original |
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| First published in 1934 in Lenin Miscellany XXVI | |

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Notes:
{1}
During the discussion at the fifteenth sitting an April 20 (May 3) of
the report and draft resolution of A. A. Bogdanov (Maximov) on the
relations between workers and intellectuals in Social-Democratic
organisations, some delegates asserted that there was no such problem in
the Party, and that there was no need to adopt any resolution on it.

The Congress resolved to defer the matter until the adoption of the
Party Rules.

Atthe nineteenth sitting on April 22 (May 5), the Congress resumed its
discussion of the question. A number of resolutions were motioned. Lenin’s
draft (see present edition, Vol. 8, pp. 407–08), which he motioned jointly
with A. A. Bogdanov, was adopted as a basis for the discussion. Lenin spoke
several times (see ibid., pp. 411, 412). By a roll-call vote the Congress
decide d not to a d opt any special resolution on the question. Lenin’s
proposals were taken into account in the resolution on propaganda and
agitation.

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