*Rabochaya Gazeta* gloats and dances over the latest Central Committee resolution, which has revealed (in connection, incidentally, with the statement already published by representatives of the Bolshevik faction of the Soviet[53]) certain disagreements within our party.

Let the Mensheviks gloat and dance. This will not disturb us. After all, the Mensheviks have no organization whatsoever. Chkheidze and Tsereteli are one thing—they are ministers without portfolios; the OK is another—they are social democrats without a line; the "defenders of the fatherland"—a third group, they follow Plekhanov. Martov is a fourth, he will not support the loan. Is it surprising that people without organization, without a party, dance and play with a light heart over the discovery of a deficiency in someone else's organization?

We have nothing to fear from the truth. Yes, comrade workers, the crisis has exposed the deficiencies in our organization. To work on correcting it!

The crisis has exposed very weak attempts to take our Central Committee "a little bit further to the left." Our Central Committee did not agree, and we have not for a moment doubted that agreement in our party is already being restored and, moreover, voluntarily, consciously, most fully.

Our line is confirmed with each passing day. For the harmonious implementation of it, we need an organization of the proletarian masses three times better than the present one. In every district, in every quarter, at every factory, in every military company there must be a firm, harmonious organization, capable of acting as one man. From each such organization there must be direct threads to the center, to the Central Committee, and these threads must be strong so that the enemy cannot break them with the first blow; these threads must be constant, daily, hourly strengthened and checked, so that the enemy cannot catch us unawares.

Comrade workers! Let us build at once, from below, everywhere, a mass, firm, proletarian organization both among the working masses and among the troops. Let us not be troubled by the malice of enemies, let us not fear partial mistakes and deficiencies. We will correct them. The future is ours.

*Pravda* No. 40, May 8 (April 25), 1917

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