Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

277RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEEOF THE R.S.D.L.P.(B.) ON THE OPPOSITIONWITHIN THE CENTRAL COMMITTEENOVEMBER 2 (15), 1917The Central Committee considers that the present meetingis of historic importance and that it is therefore necessary torecord the two positions which have been revealed here.1. The Central Committee considers that the oppositionformed within the Central Committee has departed completelyfrom all the fundamental positions of Bolshevism andof the proletarian class struggle in general by reiterating theutterly un-Marxist talk of the impossibility of a socialistrevolution in Russia and of the necessity of yielding to theultimatums and threats of resignation on the part of theobvious minority in the Soviet organisation, thus thwartingthe will and the decision of the Second All-Russia Congressof Soviets and sabotaging the dictatorship of the proletariatand the poor peasantry which has been inaugurated.2. The Central Committee lays the whole responsibilityfor hindering revolutionary work and for the vacillations,so criminal at the present moment, on this opposition, andinvites them to transfer their discussion and their scepticismto the press and to withdraw from the practical work theydo not believe in. For this opposition reflects nothing butintimidation by the bourgeoisie and the sentiments of theexhausted (not the revolutionary) section of the population.3. The Central Committee affirms that the purely Bolshevikgovernment cannot be renounced without betrayingthe slogan of Soviet power, since the majority at the SecondAll-Russia Congress of Soviets, without excluding anybodyfrom the Congress, entrusted power, to this government.4. The Central Committee affirms that, without betrayingthe slogan of the power of the Soviets of Workers’,