I am being accused of contradicting myself in the matter of the trial. If the Congress were a general one, the question of the trial would have been raised even earlier, but every thing that has gone before clearly shows what the matter was. The C.C. is unable to make a report, because it is confused. The way out for the C.C. was found in the same thing: the Congress, which met later than it should have done. When the “accused pleads guilty”, there is no need for any judicial proceedings.
| Trety ocherednoi syezd R.S.D.R.P. Polny tekst protokolov, Central Committee publication, Geneva, 1905 | |
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{1} The twenty-third sitting heard and discussed the C.C. report given by L. B. Krasin (Zimin). Some speakers noted that the report failed to describe the political activity of the Central Committee and demanded that the C.C. representative tell the Congress why the C.C. had not succeeded in guiding the Party as its political leader. Those were the statements Lenin had in mind when he spoke of the “trial” in his second speech on the C.C. report. p. 163
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