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On the one hand, it is claimed that there are no principled disagreements, they refuse to speak openly, and on the other hand, they speak of principled disagreements within the Bolshevik faction. Is this not duplicity? At the all-party conference, Dan said: who does not know that Lenin is accused of Menshevism? I answered him: read *Proletarii* and judge on the basis of it, rather than collecting gossip. Maximov said nothing then. There is nothing worse than the absence of open struggle. I say: principled unity has been violated, you say something different, and at the same time you call Lenin Martov... Why is this gathering illegal from a party standpoint? Members of the Bolshevik Center were elected at the Congress, they are discussing how best to uphold Bolshevik views. What is impermissible about this? By agitating for a separate Bolshevik congress, you show that you have finally lost faith in the party. We have always, since the II Congress, stood for the party principle, now we continue only that same line, while you preach a split at the grassroots. The Mensheviks too have a tendency toward the party principle. We believe in the party principle and defend it.

*Published according to the text of the book, checked against the protocol record*

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Maximov says that agitation for a congress was not conducted. Lyádov, Stanislav, and Vsevolod spoke with sufficient clarity. Since May 1908, Lyádov and Stanislav have conducted agitation in Russia. We have a resolution of Stanislav's; it is stated sufficiently clearly in it what he wants{4}. This is mockery of the faction. The Mensheviks have an orthodox-Marxist, Plekhanovite tendency, and the Bolsheviks have one too that is orthodox-Marxist. Both the Mensheviks and we have a liquidationist tendency—the Valentinov-Maximov tendency and so forth. Regarding comrade Maximov's statement, I restore the record that my words were a reply to Maximov's words: "there is emerging a fully Lenin-Plekhanov faction."

*Published according to the manuscript*