V. I. Lenin

Resolution to the Thesis on Bourgeois Democracy and the
Dictatorship of the Proletarian

On the basis of these thesis and the reports made by the
delegates from the different countries, the Congress of the
Communist International declares that the chief task of the
Communist Parties in all countries where Soviet government has
not yet been established, is as follows:

1) to explain to the broad mass of the workers the historic
significance and the political and historical necessity of
the new, proletarian, democracy which must replace bourgeois
democracy and the parliamentary system;

2) to extend the organization of Soviets among the workers in
all branches of industry, among the soldiers in the Army and
the sailors in the Navy and also among farm laborers and poor
peasants;

3) to build a stable Communist majority inside the Soviets.