V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v25;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

REPORT TO THE VIENNA CONGRESS

I. A. Strike movement. Demonstrations.
Working-class newspapers.
Insurance campaign.
Trade unions.
Co-operatives.
Elections to the Fourth Duma.

II. B. Disruption of strikes and revolutionary demonstrations.
Rival newspaper.
Illegal publications of 1912-1914 (0 among the liquidators).
Illegal meetings and conferences (1912, 1913, 1913).
Disintegration of the August bloc.

III. C.
1) Workers’ groups.
2) Trade unions.
3) Insurance institutions.
4) Liquidator faction without workers.
5) Voting for 6 and for 7.

IV. D.
I. Denial of the illegal party.
II. Attack in the legal press on illegal slogans.
III. National question: separatism of the Bund.
IV. " " Jagello.
V. " " cultural-national autonomy.
VI. Disruption of the will of the majority and disorganisation of it.
VII. Slander campaign
(α) Kh.
(β) Malinovsky.

V. E. Twenty years’ history:
NB ||| General congress?

VI. In view of the unheard-of insolent lies of the liquidators and foreign groups (Trotskyists, Vperyodists, Plekhanovists) we declare:
1) that we extremely regret the failure of the conference of all “factions” despite our request to hasten it;
2) that the sole aim of such a conference we set as the exposure of the lies of the liquidators and groups and the collection of objective data and facts.

Condition of our participation in any such conference: guarantees of the collection and publication of such data in the press of the West European socialist parties.

The liquidators insolently use the resolutions of the International to preach freedom to violate the will of the majority of organised workers. This is intolerable!!

Example of German aid of 3000 marks to “groups”: Jagello!!

Approximately[79]:

1. Call for Aussprache versus…[80]
…“denial of the old party”… Graphic illustration of the need for Klarheit and “Konfusion”[81].

2. “Die alte Partei verschwunden”[82]… Not to exclude comrades etc. etc… Monstrous! Approached sideways the “crux”…

3. “Tears of a good man”: bandits
emigrants
personal irritation
around one table
easy etc. etc. P.S.D.
yesterday Roza
today Warsaw and
Lodz
Lewica?

4. Cf. “Vorwärts”, 1912, 26. III.

5. No old party? Cannot establish a majority? Cannot have a Massenorganisation[83]?

6. Gemeinplätze versus[84] facts!

10. And around? disintegration – either foreign groups nil[85] (2 years 1912-1913).
– or liquidators…
denying the party (α).
… or Zweifler[86] (β)

11. Conditions (I) unconditional recognition of the old party
(in principle)…
(including the national question)
(including Lewica)
(II) unconditional recognition of the majority (for practical steps towards unity)…

12. Unity? Yes! 2500 groups of workers, not the disintegration of intellectual groups doubting about the illegal party!!

Aussprache uber die tranchanten Punkte!![87]

Written in April-May 1914.

First published in 1959 in the journal “Historical Archive” No. 4

Printed from the manuscript.