I think it would be wrong to have the Congress confirm the organisations immediately. I am opposed to the giving of a vote. I do not agree with Comrade Kamsky about a coup d’état.
| Trety ocherednoi syezd R.S.D.R.P. Polny tekst protokolov, Central Committee publication, Geneva, 1905 | |
| Printed from the text of the book |
{1} At the fourth sitting of the Congress (on the morning of April 14 [27]), Lenin spoke twice (for the second speech, see present edition, Vol. 8, pp. 365–67). After the report of the Credentials Committee, there was a debate on the granting of votes to the Bolshevik organisations which had existed and worked parallel to the Menshevik committees (the Kharkov and Yekaterinoslav groups and the Committee of the Organisation Abroad) and also to the Archangel Committee, which had not been confirmed.
V. M. Obukhov (Kamsky) said that the granting of votes to the “C.O.A. and the parallel groups is a coup d’état in form and in substance”.
Under a Congress decision, all these organisations were given voice but no vote. p. 151
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