There are disputes and struggles of opinion in the press which help readers to understand political questions more clearly, to realize their significance more deeply, and to resolve them more firmly.

There are disputes which degenerate into wrangling, gossip and squabbling.

The advanced workers, who are conscious of their responsibility for the progress of the work of enlightening and organizing the proletariat, must watch most carefully to ensure that the inevitable disputes, the inevitable struggle of opinions, do not degenerate into wrangling, gossip, squabbling, slander.

This is a question of the workers' cause, of the workers' organization. This is a most serious and most important question of combating the slightest disorganizing attempts. Here one cannot wave it aside: he who has not learned to nip disorganizing activities in the bud is unfit to be an organizer. And without organization the working class is nothing. Without discussion, disputes and struggle of opinions, no movement, including the working-class movement, is possible. Without a ruthless struggle against the degeneration of disputes into wrangling and squabbling, no organization is possible.

We invite the class-conscious workers to examine from this point of view the struggle between the six and the seven in the Social-Democratic Duma group.

The six recognized it as their duty to abide by the will and decision of the conference of Marxists. The Duma representatives of the proletariat are obliged to submit to the will of the extra-Duma majority of class-conscious, organized Marxist workers.

This is a general principle. This is the general foundation of all our views on the tasks of the working-class movement.

If this view is incorrect, it must be refuted and discarded. If it is correct and constitutes the ABC, without which one cannot approach politics, if without this ABC no organization is conceivable, then this view must be accepted and firmly upheld, despite all shouts, howls, attacks, slanders.

Comrade workers! Argue about this. Strive through disputes, talks, discussions to arrive at complete clarity on this question, but cast away from yourselves those who replace disputes with wrangling.

Look at how the liquidators replied to the first and basic argument of the six.

Their reply contains nothing but abuse! They reviled the conference, for the hundredth time they reviled the underground, that is all.

Is that a reply? Is it not a plain attempt to disorganize, to destroy the organization?

It has come to this, that F. D. in No. 70 literally wrote the following phrase: "where are the responsible bodies that put forward their candidature and gave them instructions?"

Think, comrade workers, over the meaning of this question and you will see that it is a question worthy of... those who... interrogate!... Understand then, Messrs. F. D. and other liquidators, that we cannot argue with you when you ask such questions.

Examine the matter on its merits: is the decision of the conference correct, did it correctly express the interests and views of the majority of the workers? The "Pravdists" answer this by a whole series of exact figures (No. of Za Pravdu of Tuesday, October 29, 1913).

These figures show that the "Pravdists" have behind them the absolute and indisputable majority of the class-conscious, i.e., politically active, workers.

These figures related both to the comparison of elections by the workers' curia in the Second, Third and Fourth Dumas – and to the number of workers represented by the six and the seven – and to the number of workers' groups that openly helped by collections to one or the other newspaper, etc.

Where is the liquidators' reply to this argument on the substance of the question of the majority?

Instead of a reply – abuse. The liquidators refute not a single, literally not a single figure, they do not even attempt to correct them, to replace them with other figures!!!

The matter is clearer than clear: he who evades exact data on the majority is sabotaging the will of the majority, he is a disorganizer.

The seven in the Duma are wavering towards liquidationism, for they allow the underground to be reviled, for they participate in sabotaging the will of the majority. This is the sign of the non-Party character of the seven. And no one in his sound mind would allow seven non-Party men to override by one vote Party decisions and their supporters.

No amount of abuse by the liquidators can refute this simple and clear fact.

The six have done their duty. And the more the liquidators shout and abuse, the sooner all workers and all Marxists will understand the correctness of the action of the six, the inevitability of equality of rights and agreement with the non-Party Social-Democratic deputies in the State Duma.