Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 16 - From Marx to Mao

144V. I. LENINLabour Party), Denmark 2, Belgium 2, Austria 2, Hungary2, Poland 1 (Polish Socialist Party), Russia 1 (S.R.),America 1 (Socialist Party), Holland 2 (van Kol and Troelstra!),Sweden 2.The organ of the German revolutionary Social-Democrats,Leipziger Volkszeitung (No. 259), rightly called this resolutionof the International Socialist Bureau a regrettable one.“At Copenhagen the proletarian International must reconsiderthis decision”, it concluded with full justification.Another newspaper of the same trend, the Bremer Bürgerzeitungof November 11, 1909, wrote: “Comrade Adlerspeaks as the advocate of international opportunism in allits glory.” His resolution was passed “thanks to the supportof the opportunist olla podrida” (Sammelsurium).To these just words we Russian Social-Democrats can onlyadd that our Socialist-Revolutionaries, of course, madehaste to take their place in the opportunist throng togetherwith the P.S.P.The session of the International Socialist Bureau wasfollowed on November 8, 1909 in Brussels by the fourthsession of the inter-parliamentary socialist commission, i.e.,of the members of the socialist parliamentary groups ofdifferent countries. The groups were but sparsely representedin general (the Russian Social-Democratic group in theDuma was not represented at all). The delegates interchangedreports on question of workers’ old-age insurance, thestate of legislation in different countries, and Bills drawnup by labour deputies. The best report was one made by Molkenbuhrbased on his article published in the Neue Zeit.Sotsial-Demokrat No. 10,December 24, 1909(January 6, 1910)Published according tothe text in Sotsial-Demokrat