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

156GOLOS (VOICE) OF THE LIQUIDATORSAGAINST THE PARTY 77REPLY TO GOLOS SOTSIAL-DEMOKRATAGolos Sotsial-Demokrata No. 19-20 and the manifesto ofComrades Axelrod, Dan, Martov and Martynov, publishedseparately under the heading “Letter to the Comrades”, areso much in the nature of a bomb intended to disrupt theParty immediately after the unity plenum that we are forcedto come forward with an immediate, although brief andincomplete, warning, and to address a caution to all Social-Democrats.We shall begin with the fact that Golos Sotsial-Demokratadirects its fire at us, at the editorial board of the CentralOrgan. It accuses us, through the mouth of ComradeMartov, of relegating his article to Diskussionny Listok. 78“My article does not discuss the decisions of the plenum atall,” writes Comrade Martov and he lays stress on this; thesame thing is repeated word for word in the “Letter to theComrades”.Anyone who cares to read Comrade Martov’s article headed“On the Right Path”, will see that it directly discusses thedecisions of the plenum, directly opposes the decisions onthe composition of the Central Organ, and gives a detailedjustification of the theory of the equality of trends, of the“neutralisation” of trends. The glaring untruth uttered byComrade Martov and the whole editorial board of Golos inalleging that this controversial article “does not discuss”the decisions of the plenum looks like a downright mockeryof Party decisions.If anyone is unclear about the difference between discussingthe decisions of the plenum and conscientiously