1. Whereas the proletariat, being, by virtue of its position, the foremost andmost consistent revolutionary class, is therefore called upon to play therole of leader and guide of the general democratic revolutionary movement inRussia;
2. Whereas only the performance of this role during the revolution will ensurethe proletariat the most advantageous position in the ensuing struggle forsocialism against the propertied classes of the bourgeois-democratic Russiaabout to be born; and
3. Whereas the proletariat can perform this role only if it isorganised under the banner of Social-Democracy in to an independentpolitical force and if it acts in strikes and demonstrations with thefullest possible unity;— Therefore, the Third Congress of theR.S.D.L.P. resolves that the task of organising the forces of theproletariat for direct struggle against the autocracy by means ofmass political strikes and the armed uprising, and of setting up forthis purpose an apparatus for information and leadership, is one ofthe chief tasks of the Party at the present revolutionary moment;for which reason the Congress instructs both the C.C. and the localcommittees and leagues to start preparing the political mass strikeas well as the organisation of special groups for the obtainment anddistribution of arms, for the elaboration of a plan of the armed uprising and the direct leadership of the rising. The fulfilment ofthis task can and should proceed in such a way as will not only notin the least prejudice the general work of awakening theclass-consciousness of the proletariat, but, on the contrary, willrender that work more effective and successful.
| Written on April 14 (27), 1905 |
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