I personally observed Comrade Radek's vacillations from defending the extreme left to defending the Russian liquidators; I have always fought and will continue to fight politically against any defenders of liquidationism, but precisely for this reason, I must rise up against the disgusting methods of the so-called Polish Vorstand in the "Radek case" 577.

What is the main feature of the "well-known" (bekannt) pamphlet by Martov, which Rosa Luxemburg so aptly recalled? 578
It is that the leader of the liquidators, Martov, after the solemn and unanimous condemnation of liquidationism by all Social Democrats of Russia in January 1910, and the proclamation of peace in the party on the basis of this condemnation 579, - a year later, when the liquidators destroyed the Central Committee of the party and broke away from it, he published a pamphlet with accusations of his opponents in 1001 dishonorable and criminal acts. The Poles then called this pamphlet a "Stinkbombe"*, and even (sogar, not selbst) Kautsky called it "abscheulich"**.

Literally the same thing was now done by the so-called Polish Vorstand, with Rosa Luxemburg at the helm.

Personally, it was none other than members of this very Vorstand in 1909 and 1910 who recommended Comrade Radek as a collaborator for our party's Central Organ and personally introduced him to me, giving the best references, at the international congress in Copenhagen.

But then, in 1911, Comrade Radek took a political stand against this Vorstand, supporting the Warsaw Party Committee, a number of party members, and two of its most prominent leaders (Malecki and Ganczarski), who exposed this Vorstand for its disorganizing activities. Comrade Radek helped to establish the truth, namely, that the Polish Parteivorstand is a Vorstand without a party. In Warsaw, the capital of Poland, this Vorstand no longer represents the Warsaw Committee, but its fictitious group. German comrades will soon learn more about this in detail. Members of the Russian Social Democratic Party know that there is already a whole literature on this, and Rosa Luxemburg is in vain trying to hush it up (totzuschweigen) before the International!

And so, after Comrade Radek politically opposed the so-called Parteivorstand (without a party), this "Partei"vorstand concocts a "trial" against Radek on the "case" - listen! - of 1 9 0 6!

This is the crux of the matter, this is what our illustre* Rosa is trying to wegzuschwatzen***!

Rosa Luxemburg and her "Partei"vorstand are now waging an unprecedentedly furious war against the best workers of their own party, stooping to such baseness as suspecting them of connections with the police. Rosa Luxemburg

* - stinking bomb. Ed.

** - abominable, vile. Ed.

*** - chatter away, talk over. Ed.

**** - illustrious. Ed.

ROSA LUXEMBURG AND THE POLISH "PARTEI"VORSTAND and her "Partei"vorstand have lost their heads, waging such a war with their political opponents.

Is it not clear now why, without going into the essence of the "Radek case," I consider it my duty to state: the essence of this case is the political revenge of Rosa Luxemburg and her "Partei"vorstand.

Turgenev long ago characterized certain methods in Russian literature. An old trickster, Turgenev wrote, once gave wise advice: when you commit a base act, shout louder than anyone else about the baseness of the very actions you are committing.

When you rob the treasury, shout louder than anyone else about the vileness of embezzlement...

When the Polish "Partei"vorstand stooped to repeating Martov's methods against Comrade Radek, - this "Partei"vorstand sent Rosa Luxemburg to "Vorwarts" to shout as loudly as possible about the baseness of Martov! ... Es ist eine alte Geschichte*, but for us, Russian emigrants, ist sie leider gar nicht "neu"**...

Rosa Luxemburg tries to convince German readers that Comrade Radek "nie die geringste Rolle gespielt hat"*** and so on and so forth. I am obliged, in response to this elenden Altweiberklatsch****, to state the exact fact: Comrade Radek worked a lot and successfully both in 1909 and 1910 as a collaborator of the Central Organ of the Social Democratic Party of Russia. I was one of the editors of the Central Organ, and I cannot leave Rosa Luxemburg's malicious gossip unanswered.

Rosa Luxemburg, in order to blacken Comrade Radek, praises herself under the name of "polnische Wortfuhrer"*****. She hints at the instability of der "taktischen" Ideen****** of Comrade Radek.

I will say straight out that I consider this instability, this readiness for "peace" with the Russian liquidators, a great sin of Comrade Radek. But I think it is more forgivable

* - This is an old story. Ed.

** - it, unfortunately, is not at all "new." Ed.

*** - "never played the slightest role." Ed.

**** - pitiful old women's gossip. Ed.

***** - "Polish representatives." Ed.

****** - "tactical" ideas. Ed.

for such a sin in a non-responsible employee for the policy of the Central Organ and the Central Committee, than in members of the Central Committee and the Central Organ. And among the notorious "Polish Wortfuhrern," those who played the predominant role were such known "Intrigenfuhrer"*, like Tyszka, and their instability caused great harm to the entire party.

To avoid being unsubstantiated, I will give two examples. In January 1910, the plenum of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party unanimously condemned liquidationism. The only section of the resolution, opening Tur und Thor** to opportunism (the so-called § 1), was passed at the initiative of Tyszka. What will Rosa Luxemburg say about this? Will she perhaps try to defend this § 1 from the point of view of "radikale Richtung"***?
When the Bolsheviks left the so-called Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee in the spring of 1911 due to the destruction of the Central Committee by the liquidators, the Poles remained in this institution for months together with the Bundists and Latvians 580, about whom even (sogar) Plekhanov wrote: "Diese Parteiinstitution, die zum Werkzeug in den Handen einer Gruppe von Leuten geworden war, die die Partei liquidieren wollten und die daher der Sache des russischen Proletariats gro.en Schaden zuzufugen drohte, konnte diesem nur einen Gefallen erweisen: namlich das Zeitliche segnen" (Note: "Tagebuch eines S. D." 2 Beilage zu N 15, S. 1, zitiert in der Schrift: "Der Anonymus aus dem «Vorwarts» und die Sachlage in der Soz. Dem. Arb. P. Ru.lands"; diese Schrift wurde in die Redaktionen aller s. d. Blatter in Deutschland gesandt)****.

The reader can judge from these facts how much truth there is in the boastful words of Rosa Luxemburg, that

* - "intriguers." Ed.

** - door and gate. Ed.

*** - "radical direction." Ed.

**** - "This party institution, which had become a tool in the hands of a group of people who wanted to liquidate the party, and thus threatened to cause great damage to the cause of the Russian proletariat, could do the revolutionary proletariat only one favor: to die in time" (Note: "Diary of a Social Democrat," 2nd supplement to No. 15, p. 1, cited in the article "The Anonymous from 'Vorwarts' and the Situation in the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia," this article was sent to all the editorial offices of social democratic newspapers in Germany). Ed.

ROSA LUXEMBURG AND THE POLISH "PARTEI"VORSTAND the Poles "mit starker Faust die liquidatorische Richtung in Ru.land niederzuhalten geholfen haben"*

In reality, the Poles hindered the struggle against this "direction"** much more with their intrigues. Even now, 8 months after the formal exclusion from the party of a certain group of liquidators (the journal "Nasha Zarya") 581, the notorious "Polish Wortfuhrer" have not been able to give a direct answer as to whether they want "peace" with this group or not. To give a direct answer, of course, is not as easy as committing plagiarism today from the anti-liquidators, tomorrow from the liquidators, and declaring oneself on this basis "above" both "factions"!

Rosa Luxemburg uses the "Radek case" to convince German readers that nothing remains of the "russian party"***, "au.ser Trummern"****.

In response to this, I must state the exact facts. The "Trummer" is the Polish "Partei"vorstand, for it has not belonged to the party for a whole year. For a whole year, it has not been in organizational contact either with the Central Committee of the party, elected at the January conference of 1912 582, or with the so-called "Organizational Commission" of the liquidators.

* - "with a strong hand helped to suppress the liquidationist direction in Russia."

** - "direction."

*** - "Russian party."

**** - "except for ruins."

The party of the Russian s.-d. proletariat, freed from the liquidators and the intriguers of the Polish "Partei"vorstand, is so little like Trummer that it has been developing particularly successfully since January 1912. Since some - and sometimes, unfortunately, influential - comrades from the German party often listen to prejudiced stories and Klatsch***** by the Wortfuhrer des polnischen "Partei"vorstandes******, who stand outside the party, I will limit myself to a brief indication of the facts.

The only open measure (Maßstab) of the influence of s.-d. in Russia and their connections with the working masses are the legal Marxist newspapers. In Russia, there are only 2 "currents": the party and the liquidators. All others are Schwindel*.

The liquidators published 21 issues of the newspaper in the first half of 1912, while the anti-liquidators published 100. For the 2 months of the second half (July and August): the former published 4, the latter 60. The former, over 8 months (I-VIII 1912), could print about direct support from 16 workers' groups, the latter from 551**.

Let Rosa Luxemburg, with her stories about "Trummer," try to refute these facts!

The stories of the Polish "Partei"vorstand about the Russian party are even less credible than their stories about Radek.

N. Lenin