ABSTRACT

The Bolsheviks were disputing with the Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries, and other petty-bourgeois tendencies, the Bolsheviks expounded before the workers the actual system of opinions advanced by their opponents. The Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries could not expound the views of the Bolsheviks before the workers with any approach to justice, because in that case the workers would have supported the Bolsheviks. The whole mechanics of the class struggle reduced these petty-bourgeois groups to the necessity of opposing the Bolsheviks by calling them 'conspirators', 'allies of the counter-revolution', and later 'agents of Wilhelm'. The struggle is, in actual fact, between Leninism and the opportunism of Stalin. In exactly the same way the revisionists, under pretense of a struggle with 'Blanquism', waged their battle against Marxism. Let the party find out the real opinions. Let the party get acquainted with the genuine documents of our disagreements-and especially our disagreement upon that question of international historic importance, the Chinese revolution.