I agree with Comrade Belsky’s opinion.{1} We tend to minimise the concept of revolution when using this word in relation to the mere wresting of a few paltry rights.
I agree that “revolutionary way” is an expression for a more vigorous conduct of struggle, but this tends to minimise the concept of revolution. I propose either that we replace it by the words “regardless of the law”, or that after “revolutionary way” we delete the words “minimal programme”, as it could be taken to mean that we want to carry through the whole revolution in this way.
| Trety ocherednoi syezd R.S.D.R.P. Polny tekst protokolov, Central Committee publication, Geneva, 1905 | |
| Printed from the text of the book |
{1} When the thirteenth sitting of the Congress discussed the draft resolution on the attitude towards the government’s tactics on the eve of a revolution, there was a great debate on point “c” of the resolutive section, which read: “To organise the proletariat for the immediate introduction, in a revolutionary way, of an 8–hour working day and for the implementation of all the main demands of our minimum programme.” P. A. Krasikov (Belsky) objected to the words “revolutionary way”, and proposed their substitution by the words “actual gain”.
As a result of the debate, the point was adopted in the following wording: “To organise the proletariat for the immediate implementation, in a revolutionary way, of an 8-hour working day and the impending demands of the working class” (see Trety syezd R.S.D.R.P., p. 222). p. 155
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