1) On the need to abolish the public debt. Discussion of the right to equitable compensation.
2) Relationship between the political action and the social movement of the working class.[183]
3) Practical means of converting landed property into social property (see Note).
4) On the conversion of banks of issue into national banks.
5) Conditions of cooperative production on a national scale. 6) On the need for the working class to draw up general statistics of labour, in conformity with the Geneva Congress resolutions of 1866.(1)
7) Reconsideration by the Congress of the question of the means to do away with war.
Note to Point 3: The Belgian General Council has proposed this question:
"The practical means of forming agricultural sections within the International and of establishing solidarity between agricultural proletarians and proletarians of other industries."
The General Council of the International Association believes this question is contained in Point 3.
Endnotes
[182] The agenda of the Mainz Congress of the International to be opened on September 5, 1870 was drawn up by Marx and approved by the General Council on July 12, 1870. When it was discussed Marx took the floor several times to explain different points. The text of the programme adopted by the Council was published as a leaflet entitled The Fifth Annual Congress of the International Working Men's Association. The programme was prefaced by the following text: "The International Working Men's Congress of 1870 will be held in the city of Mayence-on-the-Rhine. The delegates are requested to assemble on Monday, September 5, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, in the Marble Hall, which the Burgomaster of the City has kindly placed at the disposal of the Association during the Session of the Congress." In a letter to Jung of July 14, 1870, Marx quoted the full text of the agenda, asking him to preserve the order of the items. He wrote: "Dear Jung. Enclosed the Programme. The questions are arranged in such an order as will facilitate the business of next Congress. You'll understand my meaning. Your truly, K. M." (see present edition, Vol. 43). In this volume the programme of the Mainz Congress is printed according to Marx's manuscript, sent to Jung, which is fuller than the text of the leaflet. Besides the Mainz Congress agenda was published in The Bee-Hive, No. 461, August 13, 1870; it appeared in French in La Solidarité, No. 17, July 30, La Liberté, No. 162, July 31, L'Internationale, No. 81, July 31, L'Égalité, No. 28, August 6 and Le Mirabeau, No. 55, August 7, 1870; and in German in Der Vorbote, No. 7, July 1870 (with some inaccuracies), Die Tagwacht, No. 24, July 30, Der Volksstaat, No. 65, August 13, 1870 (the text corrected and signed by Marx).
[183] the agenda of the Mainz Congress (in his letter to Marx of April 27, 1870). It was also discussed at the Stuttgart Congress of the Social-Democratic Workers' Party (see Note 173), Liebknecht delivering a report on the subject,