The Conference recognizes the necessity of revising the Party program along the following lines:

1) To reassess imperialism and the era of imperialist wars in light of the impending socialist revolution; to combat the distortion of Marxism by so‑called “defencists” who have forgotten Marx’s slogan: “The workers have no fatherland”;

2) To amend the provisions and paragraphs concerning the state in accordance with the demand not for a bourgeois parliamentary republic, but for a democratic proletarian–peasant republic (that is, a form of state devoid of police, without a standing army, and free from privileged bureaucracy);

3) To remove or revise outdated sections of the political program;

4) To recast a number of items in the minimum political program in such a way as to more precisely articulate increasingly consistent democratic demands;

5) To completely overhaul, in many respects, the antiquated economic section of the minimum program, as well as those provisions pertaining to popular education;

6) To revise the agrarian program in line with the resolution adopted on the agrarian question;

7) To insert the demand for the nationalization of a number of syndicates and similar organizations that are most fully prepared for this step;

8) To add a characterization of the principal currents within contemporary socialism.

The Conference instructs the Central Committee to draft a party program on these foundations within a two‑month period, submitting the draft for approval at the Party Congress. The Conference calls upon all organizations and every member of the Party to engage in discussions of the draft program, to refine it, and to develop counter‑drafts.

Appendix to No. 13 of the newspaper “Soldatskaya Pravda,” May 16 (3), 1917.

Printed from a typewritten copy of the official record.