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The [Second] Congress [of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, 1903] decisively rejects terrorism, i.e., the system of individual political assassinations, as being a method of political struggle which is most expedient at the present time, diverting the best forces from the urgent and imperatively necessary work of organisation and agitation, destroying contact between the revolutionaries and the masses of revolutionary classes of the population, and spreading both amomng the revolutionaries themselves and the population in general utterly destorted ideas of the aims and methods of struggle against the autocracy.