We are being offered something unacceptable. What, after all, does Comrade Mikhailov want? Does he want the agreements to be concluded only by the C.C. and local committees jointly? But the C.C.’s general resolutions are binding on local committees. It is unreasonable to consider the special case in which the Menshevik C.C. got something wrong. The local committees should also be allowed to display initiative. We should authorise the local commit tees as well to co-ordinate the activity with Social-Democratic organisations locally. If the C.C. does not happen to find itself in conditions where it cannot be located, it will, of course, always be consulted.
| Trety ocherednoi syezd R.S.D.R.P. Polny tekst protokolov, Central Committee publication, Geneva, 1905 | |
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{1} The twenty-first sitting on April 23 (May 6) discussed a draft resolution on the attitude towards non-Russian Social-Democratic organisations motioned by V. V. Vorovsky (Orlovsky). It said: = “...The Third R.S.D.L.P. Congress, reaffirming the attitude of the Second Congress on the question of federalism, authorises both the C.C. and the local committees to do their utmost to reach agreement with the national Social-Democratic organisations for the purpose of co-ordinating local work, thereby paving the way for a possible unification of all Social-Democratic parties into a single R.S.D.L.P.” (Trety syezd R.S.D.R.P., p. 365).
D. S. Postolovsky (Mikhailov) proposed the following text: = “authorises the C.C., as well as the local organisations, to make joint efforts” (ibid.). He argued that agreement could be reached only “when it was arranged not only by the C.C. but by the local committees as well” (ibid., p. 371). This amendment was opposed by Lenin and rejected by the Congress. p. 162
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