LETTER TO A. I. LYUBIMOV AND M. K. VLADIMIROV**1.
[July 3, 1911. Paris.]
Dear Comrades! Your interventions in the Second Group
1. On July 7, 11—with speeches that we have already labeled as the worst repetition of the worst utterances by the “Economists”—and your “bloc” with the Poles
(the worst among the Poles), aimed at yet another round of “intriguing maneuvers”—with the Golovchans (“Leder’s ‘exit’”), with Trotsky (“to invite him ten times”), with the Forwardists, and with the Liquidators (who sabotaged an agreement that even Igoriev had acknowledged—2)—all of this has shown us, with complete clarity and beyond any doubt, that no political or moral unity is possible in our actions. Since we have been consulting with you on all the most important steps up to the very last moment, we feel it our duty to inform you of this.
Mark had the audacity, at the latest meeting, to declare: “We are ‘reconciliators’—we will withdraw from the Technical Commission and from the Organizational Commission.”
What would you say, comrades, if, in Polish affairs, they were to start supporting your “opposition” and playing upon your petty, trivial squabbles?!…
** The letter was written by Lenin and signed by him, Zinoviev, Kamenev,
Semashko, and Vladimirov. At the top of the manuscript, Zinoviev wrote in his own hand: “To Comrades Mark and Lev,” and he also added the date in his own handwriting. Ed.

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the Organizational Commission—if you, the Be-ki, continue to pursue a purely “factional” policy.”
We hereby declare that we will withdraw from the Technical Commission and from the Organizational Commission if you persist in the policy we regard as profoundly harmful to the Party.
By Wednesday, July 5, at 11 a.m., at Kamenev’s—where we await your response—if one should be needed—and after that deadline, we shall submit our resignation to the Technical Commission and the Organizational Commission and publicly denounce you before the Party.
With socialist–democratic greetings,
N. Lenin \
1 A. I. Lyubimov and M. K. Vladimirov were the most active representatives of the “Bolshevik–Irtshrepets” group, which coalesced into a distinct “current” in June 1911, following the June conference of Central Committee members (see Lenin’s Collected Works, vol. XV, pp. 630, note 101, and 639, note 118).
2 The “bloc” of “reconciliators” with the Poles (in this letter, the discussion specifically concerns Tyshka and Leder)
had as its primary aim the rallying of “non-factional” elements in order to combat factionalism in general, ostensibly for the sake of a supposed all‑Party unity—but in reality it was directed against the Bolsheviks (“Leninists”). In practice, this “bloc” manifested itself above all in the fact that, immediately after the June conference of Central Committee members, the “reconciliators” Lyubimov and Vladimirov, together with the Pole Tyshka, launched a dispute over the composition of the Foreign Organizational Commission tasked with convening the conference (see
Lenin’s Collected Works, vol. XV, p. 631, note 102), seeking, with the support of the Poles, to secure a majority for the “reconciliators” within that body.
The “intriguing maneuvers” of the “reconciliators” and the Poles, in this instance, were expressed in their support for Martov and Dan, who, after the June conference of Central Committee members, had withdrawn from the editorial board of the Central Organ (Social-Democrat).
The fifth member of the Social-Democrat editorial board, V. Leder, issued an ultimatum—threatening his “withdrawal” from the editorial board—demanding the inclusion of two additional Mensheviks on the board. The “reconciliators” aligned themselves with the Poles.
The Second Paris Group for the Support of the RSDLP consisted of Bolsheviks, “reconciliators” (who formed a minority), and several Forwardists. (The First Paris Group was Menshevik.) At the general meeting of the Second Paris Group, held on July 1, 1911, the question of the state of affairs within the Party was discussed. Following a lively debate, Lenin’s resolution was adopted by a majority vote
(see Lenin’s Collected Works, vol. XV, p. 197). The resolution of the “reconciliators,” which stated that “adherents and defenders of ‘defectionism’ are now few and far between, while the break with the Liquidators has already been recognized by rank-and-file workers and is being put into practice by them,” and that “factional struggle and factional isolation do not lead to the strengthening of Party organizations, but rather to their fragmentation”—this resolution received ten votes in favor.
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* The signatures that follow read: “G. Zinoviev. Yu. Kamenev. N. Aleksandrov. Kamsky.” Ed.

THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE BLOC OF “RECONCILIATORS” AND THE POLISH ELEMENTS