V. I. Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905

I think the resolution should be reworded as follows:
Motives:

(1) stating that under the pressure of the revolutionary movement, there is an actual beginning of open action by the political parties, etc.

(2) that in this the liberals have gone especially far, their actual privilege (Schmidt’s point 1).

(3) that there is a tremendous urge among the workers for the same thing (Schmidt’s point 2).
—c o n c l u s i o n s:

1. (1) no occasion should be missed for open action, the workers to be organised into an independent force in the course of the action itself;
2. (2) even the slightest legal forms should be used in an effort to get the legal labour organisations under Social-Democratic influence;
3. (3) the idea should be spread in all labour organisations and among the broadest possible masses of the need of taking practical measures to set up, alongside our secret apparatus, an apparatus for open Political action.
   [+0) The b e g i n n i n g of the actual winning of freedom of action.

[BOX:] Better 2)
1)

1. 1) The working masses strive for open action.
2. 2) The liberals are making intensive use and are gaining a preponderance.
3. 3) The need to prepare for a possible transition in the near future from the usual, exclusively secret forms of activity to open forms.

Resolves:

1. 1) no occasion should be missed ... open action to be worked out by separate organisations on the spot
2. 2) the use of even partial legal forms of organisation in an effort to subject them to Social-Democratic influence.]^{1}

Notes

{1} The text in brevier in square brackets is crossed out in the MS.—Ed.