V. I.

Lenin

Draft Resolution for the Fourth Congress of the Comintern on the Question of the Programme of the Communist International [1]

Proposals adopted at a meeting of the C.C. Five (Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Bukharin)

November 20, 1922

1. All the programmes are handed to the Executive of the Comintern or
to a committee appointed by it for detailed working up and study.

The Executive of the Comintern is obliged within the shortest possible time to
publish all the draft programmes forwarded to it.

2. The congress confirms that all the national parties which do not yet
have their own national programmes must immediately start drafting them so
that they may be submitted to the Executive not later than within three
months of the next congress, which shall endorse them.

3. The necessity of fighting for transition demands subject to
appropriate reservations making these demands dependent on concrete
conditions of place and time should be stated explicitly and categorically
in the national programmes.

4. The theoretical basis for all such transition or limited demands
should be definitely stated in the general programme, the Fourth Congress
declaring that the Comintern emphatically condemns both the attempts to
represent the inclusion of limited demands in the programme as opportunism,
and all and any attempts to use limited demands to obscure and side-track
the basic revolutionary task.

5. The general programme should clearly state the basic historical
types of transition demands of the national parties depending on cardinal
differences of economic structure, as for example, Britain and India, and such-like. [2]