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

NOTES OF A PUBLICIST233nise the need for collaboration in amending these resolutions,in revising them in accordance with the criticismof the comrades of all factions, including, of course, thepro-Party Mensheviks; we know that some propositionsin these resolutions will probably remain open to disputein the Party for quite a long time to come, and it will notbe possible to settle them in the near future otherwise thanby a majority vote. But as long as this revision has notbeen undertaken and completed, as long as the Party hasnot given a new answer to the question of the appraisal ofthe Third Duma period and the tasks ensuing from it, weabsolutely demand that all Party Social-Democrats, whateverviews they hold, should be guided in their actions by thesevery resolutions.It would seem that this is an elementary point of Partyprinciple? It would seem that there could not be any otherattitude to Party decisions? But the turn to liquidationismwhich Golos has taken after the plenum caused it in thiscase, too, to utilise the concession of the majority of theParty not for going over to a loyal Party position, but forimmediately declaring its dissatisfaction with the extentof the concession! (Only the Golosists have apparentlyforgotten that the side which started the dispute about theunanimously adopted compromise resolution, expressingdissatisfaction with it and demanding new concessions andnew amendments, thereby gave the other side the right todemand amendments in another direction. And we, ofcourse, are going to exercise this right.)The editorial in Golos No. 19-20, which I have alreadycited, concerning the results of the plenum says outrightthat the introductory words to the resolution are a compromise.This is true, but it becomes untrue if the fact be suppressedthat the compromise enforced by the ultimatumof the Mensheviks was the refusal of the majority of theCentral Committee to directly confirm all the resolutionsof December 1908, and not only the fundamental propositionscontained in them.“From our point of view,” continues Golos, “this phrasedoes not harmonise with the unambiguous content of themain points of the resolution, and while it marks a certainturning-point in the development of the Party, nevertheless