It is dangerous to substitute committees for Congress sittings. The committees discuss many interesting questions which are then lost and do not get into the minutes. The committees do not have enough time for serious work, and it is not desirable to extend it to the detriment of the Congress work. It would be well to elect a resolutions committee right away, so as to give our work some direction at least. We also need a committee for examining the reports. I doubt whether we need organisational, agrarian and armed uprising committees. We have the old Rules, there is Ivanov’s draft, there is Comrade N. F.’s opinion,{1} there is quite enough material.
| Trety ocherednoi syezd R.S.D.R.P. protokolov, Central Committee publication, Geneva, 1905 | |
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{1} The draft motioned by Ivanov (A. A. Bogdanov), which Lenin mentions, was the new draft Rules of the R.S.D.L.P. submitted to the Congress by the Majority Committees’ Bureau. It was published in No. 13 of Vperyod on April 5 (March 23), 1905, under the title “Organisational Question”. The draft, with some amendments outlined at preliminary meetings of delegates, was read out by Bogdanov (Maximov) at the fifteenth, afternoon, sitting of the Congress on April 20 (May 3). Following a discussion and the introduction of a number of amendments, the Rules were adopted at the seventeenth, afternoon, sitting on April 21 (May 4).
The remarks of N. F. (B. B. Essen) on Ivanov’s draft were published under the title “Concerning the Draft Party Rules” in the Supplement to No. 15 of Vperyod on April 20 (7), 1905. p. 149
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