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

190V. I. LENINnevertheless wants as before, while speaking of the Mensheviks“in general”, to have in mind only the Golosists to theexclusion of the Plekhanovites and the pro-Party Mensheviks,we shall always expose such a mode of action everywhere.Pravda declares that it “cannot and does not want to enterinto a discussion” of the conflicts after the plenum, firstly,because “it is not in possession of the factual data requiredfor a correct judgement”.To this we reply: if Pravda abroad has not yet found sufficient“data” in the conduct of the Golosist liquidators itnever will. In order to see the truth one must not fear to facethe truth.“... Secondly—and this is the most important—becauseorganisational conflicts require organisational and notliterary intervention. “This principle is correct. But the pro-Party Mensheviks“intervened”, as any Party member should, in the appraisalof an ideological and not an organisational conflict. Pravdadoes the opposite. It invokes a principle but does not followit in practice. Actually, Pravda devoted the first paragraphof its article to “interfering” in an organisational conflict.And that is not all. In its version of the organisationalconflict Pravda brings grist to the mill of the liquidatorsby calling our article “harsh in the extreme” but withoutqualifying the anti-Party behaviour of the Golosists; ittells an untruth by describing as a factional conflict thestruggle between the Party’s Central Organ and the anti-Party section of the Mensheviks (namely, the Golosists);it tells a half-truth by passing over in silence the splittingmanifesto of the four editors of Golos Sotsial-Demokrata,and so forth.A workers’ newspaper should either have kept off thesubject of the “organisational” conflict or have given a fullaccount of it, telling the whole truth.One of the serious obstacles to Party unity lies in theattempts to screen the anti-partyism of Golos. Keeping silentabout its liquidationism or adopting a frivolous attitudeto it only aggravates the danger of liquidationism.Sotsial-Demokrat No. 13,April 26 (May 9), 1910Published according tothe text in Sotsial-Demokrat