LENIN'S NOTEBOOK b

The main resolutions of the conference were published in *Iskra* No. YYY, and also published as a separate pamphlet: "Resolutions of the South Russian Constituent Conference of the RSDLP*" August 1905, Geneva.

a.

CONFUSION INSTEAD OF GUIDANCE.

The last word in Iskraite tactics or "mock elections as new incentives for insurrection."

Regarding the resolution on the State Duma ("Southern Constituent Conference"). Sources of confusion: Organization of revolutionary self-government = organization of armed insurrection. Compare *Social-Democrat* No. 12 *). Organization of revolutionary self-government: democratic revolution = consumer societies: socialist revolution 1 2).

1. Convening of the Constituent Assembly" - by whom? Blank space. "Heavier situation"? *Sic*? 3) Heavier than 1861 - 1901 etc?
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Convening - how? Blank space compare § 2 of the resolution of I Conf. *Proletary* 4). Question of the convocation of the Constituent Assembly (liberation) and about the method of convocation.

2. Criticism of the State Duma (points 1 - 2 and 3 beginning).

3. "Declares a conscious (?) traitor to the people anyone who is ready to be satisfied |(not "satisfied," but "ready to be satisfied"!)| with the State Duma and does not set as his task, in the present decisive moment, by his actions (*sic!*) and his tactics to support the demands of the revolutionary people for the convocation of the Constituent Assembly."

CONFUSION INSTEAD OF GUIDANCE

| Support
by actions. . .
Why not by insurrection?
Why the understatement? Who benefits from it?
Unbehilflich 5) (α) "conscious traitor" *zu viel* 6) ...
peasants etc, (compare Johann Jacoby).
(β) declare who is "ready". Where is the measure of "readiness"??

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Are the words or deeds of a person proof
Planningstag Tuesday:
that he
20: 6 X — 10 X
;
is "ready"?
If
21: 13 X — 17 X j "words" - it means agreement with the
22: 20 X — 2i X liberationists] on the conditions.
23: 27 X — 1 XI i
If deeds - it means exposure
___ _____ :| of them for the treason they are committing and a call to insurrection *).
= confusion.

Threatening in words: "declare a conscious traitor". But in fact? Whom to declare? Constitutional Democrats? No. *Puff*. Empty phrase about people instead of a political directive about parties.

4.
Creation of a "broad democratic organization" (??) = "all-Russian people's organization" (?) *Quid est*? To drown the RSDLP in a broad democratic organization?
*Unmöglich* 7).

This means, temporary union.
With whom?
Constitutionalists-Democrats?
Revolutionary Democrats? Allah knows.
Why unite?
"for the purpose" (1)
of an energetic struggle "against the State Duma". *Sic*!

Struggle. "Struggle against the State Duma" (not yet born) State Duma - active boycott !!! (2) for the realization of the all-people's Constituent Assembly etc. - liberationists!!

Arch-confusion; Only workers, peasants?? No, all-Russian (!) people (!!)
Workers' agitation committees -|- "correspondingly (? workers') agitation committees
among the peasantry."
"Formation of gubernatorial peasant committees (!)

* To the left of this paragraph in the manuscript is a calendar table
of the release of the nearest issues of "Proletary".
Ed.

5.
"With sufficient strength of this organization"... proceed to organize all-people's elections (!) to the Constituent Assembly, bearing in mind that an "organized" (!) people's movement directed towards these elections can become a natural transition to all-people's insurrection.

(α = transition without armament and military preparation?
[3. Organization of revolutionary forces not — organization of armed insurrection].

υ. "Natural transition" - means to designate the occasion!)
"New incentives" "for insurrection" are mock elections. "Preliminary organization will ensure universality and unity for it" (<insurrection>).
Organization for insurrection, agreed on insurrection could ensure, but not organization
for mock elections.

"Incentives" = strikes + student unrest + State Duma + mobilization + manifestation + π + 1.
Alongside this... energetically intervene in the election campaign... discuss the tasks that face the [elected] representatives in the State Duma.

What are these tasks? Only discussing them? And you don't know them? What evasions: Do you reject the "revolutionary obligations" or not?
To achieve the entry of the bourgeoisie onto the revolutionary path, "strata having rights," "democratic organization of the people"!

= (1) either a call to insurrection ("led by the democratic organization of the people"), and [the formation of] a temporary government!)!

= (2) or "in its absence" the transformation of the State Duma into a revolutionary assembly for the convocation of the All-People's Constituent Assembly.

= (3) or to assist in its convocation by a "democratic organization of the people."