V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v16;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

RECORD OF THE DEBATE ON THE REPORT.

Olkhin (conclusion): “dissonance”¹—a leaflet on the Zemstvo campaign with the position of Iskra......
“I never was and never will be a conciliator,” because they are unprincipled...

Lenin himself has a basis for conciliation—for he regards everything as a misunderstanding.....

Ioffe. It is partly true that Iskra repeats the old, Rabocheye Dyelo.
“all the practical measures proposed there (in Iskra’s letter) are so impractical”.....
but Ioffe nevertheless shares the general views of the Iskra editorial board in this letter.

Davidson. Also accuses Lenin.
It is possible that an opportunist deviation is beginning. Have we not been convinced by the arguments of the book?
Is it worth fighting over the Rules?
“An unpleasant christening” (“Tushino turncoats”)²
...“A shameful comedy”.... of the last year...

Rubanovsky. Professional struggle. How does he conceive it? Only the collection of exposures “Has introduced confusion into minds”....
The article in No. 1 and the tasks diverge.³ In What Is To Be Done? it is not the same as in One Step Forward. pp. 59, 86, 157

NB “In the disagreements there is much that is personal or accidental”....
The matter is deeper... A simple explanation is unsuitable... Where is the way out?

Nikitov.* Occupied exclusively with disagreements. The minority has “a completely different view of the congress” than Lenin.
The minority “looks at the congress as all Social-Democratic parties in the West do.”
...Comradely relations are needed.... It is necessary, they say, to harmonise (he himself said so before the congress)...
The plan of What Is To Be Done?.... In Russia control is impossible....
Trust in the organisation (the Iskra organisation) is needed. Lenin himself destroyed it.
The minority raised the struggle at the congress (= Lenin on § 1 (Rusov against Lenin).

§ 1 was passed not only because of the Libers and Martynovs
23 and 28 [5 majority; 5 Bundists + 3 = 8; 7 and 1;
7 — 1 = 6]

violence (after § 1), [forgot] thought that he was not at a congress,
but in parliament.....

The majority was of one vote—imposed by “violence”....
“Super-centre”, “state of siege”

| “violence over all independently thinking workers”.

An entire trend in Russia cannot be explained by Lenin’s mis-
take...

Lenin may renounce the phrase (α and ω), but it is ap-
proved and these views are being pursued...

From these words followed a harmful tactic of substituting
intellectuals for workers....
| If Akimov says that white is white|

In the party club Akimov defended Lenin....
....The difference between Akimov and Martov is enormous....

Martynov does not defend what he defended before.

And this too is Lenin’s riding roughshod, this is not to the point,
a “lawyer’s challenge”...

The discussion before the congress was only on programmatic
questions.
|| According to Lenin there is a mechanical connection of party
|| workers (“Letter to a Comrade” is built on this view, there is no
|| tactics, no politics there)....

Every party must have not only an organisation, but also tactics... Earlier the question of tactics could
not be raised....

Control through organisation an und für sich*—
no, we can only direct the spontaneous movement.
The conciliators now do not ride the minority...

On Jacobinism of the 18th and 19th centuries. More sympathy in general for the Jacobins. There is no analogy.

NB “There is no contact between the workers’ organisation and the committees.”

....A conspiratorial organisation commanding the proletariat....

Grinter. Lenin wanted to state objectively... In the absence of Plekhanov and Ortodox. J’accuse.** Circle and party? In the minutes he said that he saw that it was heading for a split.... To leave the editorial board for where? In a bossy manner, i.e., to collect votes. Now Lenin again raises questions.
I concede to Lenin that principled disagreements arose even if later....*
Why is Martynov worse than Bonch-Bruyevich¹??

He did not pick up the gauntlet
Lenin

Reply to Gorkin: 1) Does the democratic movement precede the revolutionary?
2) What is the connection between Rabocheye Dyelo and the present disputes about the liberals?

“Bloc.”
Minor questions.

Answers. (Comrade Alexandrovsky; Comrade Izrail).
Lenin’s “organisational plan” (having disbanded, etc.) oppression of the workers.
Contra. a) What organisational plan?
b) “Letter to a Comrade.”
c) “State of siege”?? of the 22****