V. I.

Lenin

Comment by Sotsial-Demokrat Editors on Statement by Commission Convening Plenary Meeting of C.C. [2]

For a long time, ever since December 1910, the Editorial
Board of the Central Organ has been warning the Party that the
Golos group is sabotaging the plenary meeting. [1]

We now have the facts of their sabotage of plenary meetings, first in
Russia and then abroad.

The meeting in Russia was wrecked by Mikhail, Yuri, and Roman. By
their “clever rebuttal” they merely confirmed their having been invited
to attend a meeting of the Central Committee, if only to co-opt new
members, and that it was not the wicked “factional” “Leninist”
Bolsheviks who had invited them, but conciliators . Yet the three
gentlemen refused to attend the meeting. It was their refusal that
sabotaged the work of the Central Committee in Russia, for all the
Bolshevik members of the Central Committee who went to Russia (and they
were all of them practical leaders) were “eliminated” before
they succeeded in calling a plenary meeting after that trio had refused to
attend.

No matter what the Golos people say now, no matter what they
swear to and what assurances they give, no matter how they try to confuse
the issue and wriggle out by resorting to imprecations, feuds, and
chicanery, there is no getting away from the facts. And it is a fact that a
trio of the chief leaders of the legalists—Mikhail + Yuri +
Roman, the closest associates of Mr. Potresov and of the other heroes of
the Stolypin labour party— sabotaged the Central Committee in
Russia.

Now the Golos group has sabotaged the Central Commit tee
abroad as well. The Bolsheviks demanded that it be convened in
December 1910; but the liquidationist Central Committee Bureau Abroad
refused to convene it, pleading that that was the business of the
Central Committee Bureau in Russia (this was a lie, because a meeting held
abroad did not preclude one being held in Russia).

The second time, after the arrests in Russia, the Bolsheviks demanded
that the meeting be convened abroad in April or May 1911 . Again
the Central Committee Bureau Abroad refused on the plea
that half the “Russian Bureau” had survived .

Four or five months have passed since then, and the falsity of the
excuses cited by the Bureau Abroad has been fully exposed : in four months not a single letter has been received from “that half”
of the “Bureau”, there has been no news of a single step taken by that
half, not a single spark of life shown. The Liebers, Igorevs, and
Schwartzes deceived the Party. By referring to the non-existent
Bureau in Russia, they refused to convene the Central Committee
abroad. Yet, the Meeting of members of the Central Committee held in June,
proved that nine members of the Central Committee were abroad at the time.

Anyone who is capable of thinking and of keeping a clear head amid the
shouts, imprecations, feuds, and chicanery, cannot help seeing that the
Central Committee has been definitely wrecked by the Golos people.

The Golos group has done everything it could to destroy the
Party. The Party will do everything it can to destroy them.

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Notes:
[1]
See pp. 23–38 of this volume.— Ed .

[2]
Lenin wrote this comment to the statement made by the commission
appointed by the Meeting of Central Committee members in June 1911 to
prepare for a plenary meeting of the Central Committee. The statement cited
facts of sabotage on the part of the liquidators to prevent preparations
for a plenary meeting of the Central Committee in Russia and abroad.