V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v15; en:CW/CW41;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Taking into consideration:

1) that on the basis of the protracted economic crisis Russia is experiencing, and in connection with the extreme intensification of government reaction, the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is becoming considerably more acute, and the struggle of the peasants against the old order is also deepening and spreading;

2) that the past year of revolution has been marked by a rapid growth of class consciousness among all classes, a strengthening of the extreme parties, a decline of constitutional illusions, and a weakening of the “centre,” i.e., the liberal parties, which are striving to put an end to the revolution by means of concessions acceptable to the Black-Hundred landlords and the autocracy;

3) that the class interests of the proletariat in a bourgeois revolution demand the creation of conditions which would open up the possibility of the broadest struggle against the propertied classes for socialism;

4) that the only way to create these conditions is to win a democratic republic, full power of the people, and the minimum of socio-economic demands necessary for the proletariat (the eight-hour working day and the other demands of the Social-Democratic minimum programme);

5) that only the proletariat is capable of carrying the democratic revolution to completion, provided that, as the only consistently revolutionary class of modern society, it leads the mass of the peasantry in a ruthless struggle against landlordism and the serf-owning state,

the Congress recognises:

a) that the main task of the proletariat at the present historical moment is to carry the democratic revolution in Russia to completion;

b) that any belittling of this task inevitably leads to the transformation of the working class from the leader of the people’s revolution, heading the mass of the democratic peasantry, into a passive participant in the revolution, trailing in the wake of the liberal bourgeoisie;

c) that, while giving every support to the accomplishment of this task, the Social-Democratic Party must not for a single moment forget the independent, socialist aims of the proletariat.