Second Party Congress

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Plan of Article

No article of Lenin’s written according to this plan has been discovered. The last paragraph of the plan, relating to the Bund, is expanded in the article “Maximum Brazenness and Minimum Logic”.

Long awaited.

Why slow? (Socialist-Revolutionaries and Social- Democrats. Really mass movement. Philistinism and politics.)

Chief task of Congress: to give formal shape.

1αProgramme. Its significance. End of “nomad” period.[1] Bulwark in fight against liberals, Socialist- Revolutionaries, etc.

Guide in propaganda.

Guide in agitation.

2βOrganisational Rules. Their significance. Centralism. Local autonomy. (2 central bodies.) Comradely attitude towards leaders. Personal and political relations. Working out interpretation and methods of applying the Rules.
3ÎłResolutions.

liberals (two)

Socialist-Revolutionaries
demonstrations

trade union struggle

Party literature

1. liberals

2. liberals

3. Socialist-Revolutionaries

4. Party literature

5. demonstrations

6. trade union struggle
} important
7. shop stewards

8. 1904 Congress

9. Kishinev pogrom

10. sects

11. students

12. behaviour under interrogation

} not important
4δWithdrawal of Bund. Better openly. Tactics: explain harmfulness of isolation. (The Bundists’ nationalism and organisational scurrilities.)
5Minutes.


  1. ↑ “End of ’nomad’ period"—the end of the ideological and organisational disunity among the Social-Democratic organisations.