Comrades, permit me to present a draft resolution that formulates a somewhat different proposal, but in essence somewhat similar to what the previous speaker said{37}. I would like to submit the following resolution for the Congress's consideration. (Reads.)[10]

Comrades, this proposal is distinguished by the fact that I wish first to defend my idea about accelerating the publication of the program and to entrust the Central Committee directly with publishing it, or to entrust it with creating a special commission.

The tempo of development is so furious that we ought not to defer this matter. Given the difficulties of the present time, we will obtain a program that will contain many errors, but this is not harmful—the next Congress will correct it, even though this will be too rapid a correction of the program, but life moves so quickly that if a series of corrections to the program needs to be made—we will make them. Now our program will be constructed not so much on the basis of books, but from practice, from the experience of Soviet power. Therefore, I think it is in our interest that we turn to the international proletariat not with passionate appeals, with exhortatory rally speeches, not with shouts, but with a precise, concrete program of our party. Let the program be less satisfactory than what would result from elaboration in several commissions, from confirmation by the Congress.

I would like to hope that we will be able to adopt this resolution unanimously, because I have avoided the disagreement to which Comrade Bukharin points; I have formulated it in such a way that I have left the question open. We can hope that if there does not occur too major changes, then we will be in a position to obtain a new program that will be a precise document for the all-Russian party, and we will not find ourselves in that vile situation in which I found myself when, at the previous Congress, some leftist Swede asked me: "but what is your party's program—the same as the Mensheviks'?"{38}. One had to see what enormous eyes that Swede made, who clearly understood how gigantically far we had moved away from the Mensheviks. We cannot leave such a monstrous contradiction in place. I think that this will bring practical benefit for the international workers' movement, and what we will gain will, undoubtedly, be higher than the fact that the program will be burdened with errors.

That is why I propose to accelerate this, not at all fearing that the Congress will have to correct it.