In the plan, the question of the programme is In the second place. The national question is a part of the programme and is to be dealt with when the latter is discussed. The question of regional and national organisations in general is an organisatlonal one. But the question of attitude to the nationalities, in particular, is a tactical question and is an application of our general principles to practical activity.
The first item on the list relates specially to the Bund organisation. The sixth relates to the Party organisation. Upon the establishment of general rules for local, regional, national and other organisations, this special question is raised: which organisations and on what terms shall be recruited to the Party?
| Vtoroi echerednoi syezd R.S.D.R.P. Polny tekst protokolov (The Regular Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Full Text of the Minutes), Central Committee publication, Geneva, 1904 | Printed from the text of the book |
{1} The first speech is in reply to M. I. Lieber’s question: “How are we to understand the point about the national question? Why is it separated out from the point about the draft programme? What is the meaning of the national question being a question of tactics? Why is this question not regarded as a cardinal one?”
The second speech is in reply to another of Lieber’s questions: “How are we to understand the point about national organisations? This question appears to be raised independently of the question of the Bund’s status in the Party” (Vtoroi syezd R.S.D.R.P., 1959, pp. 17–18).
The first point, mentioned by Lenin, in the list of questions subject to debate at the Congress (“On the Bund’s Status in the R.S.D.L.P.”) was second on the agenda adopted by the Congress, and point six (“Regional and National Organisations”) was seventh. p. 85
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