On the question of what relation data on the majority or minority of workers siding with the Pravdists, or rather, being Pravdists, in Russia have to “unity,” it should be noted:

1. If a certain party or group definitely and precisely advances a programme or tactics with which our party cannot agree in principle, then the question of the majority is, of course, of no significance. For example, if the S.R. party (Left Narodniks), which differs from us in both programme and tactics, won over the majority of workers in Russia to its side, this would not in the least compel us to retreat from our line. The same applies to the outright and definite deniers of the “underground” (i.e., the illegal party) in present-day Russia.

But certain Social-Democratic groups and some of the liquidators assert that they have no irreconcilable differences of principle with us. To such groups and individuals we are compelled to point out their inconsistency if they refuse to submit to the majority.

2. The correctness of our tactical and organisational line has been proved to us, first of all, by our many years’ acquaintance with, and participation in, the working-class Social-Democratic movement in Russia, as well as by our theoretical, Marxist, convictions. But we hold the view that the practice of the mass working-class movement is no less important than theory, and that only this practice is capable of providing a serious verification of our principles. “Theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life” (Faust). Therefore, the fact that after 2½ years of struggle against liquidationism and its allies, 4/5 of the class-conscious workers declare for “Pravdism”—this fact strengthens our conviction in the correctness of our line and makes this conviction unyielding.

3. In Russia, almost every group or “fraction” (to use the old term) accuses another of being not a workers’ group, but a bourgeois-intellectual one. We consider this accusation, or rather this consideration, this indication of the social significance of a particular group, to be extremely important in principle. But precisely because we consider it extremely important, we consider it our duty not to hurl our indication of the social significance of other groups unsubstantiated, but to support our indication with objective facts. For objective facts irrefutably and incontrovertibly prove that only Pravdism is the workers’ trend in Russia, while liquidationism and S.R.-ism are in fact bourgeois-intellectual trends.