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

NOTES OF A PUBLICIST235them in accordance with their own point of view, in accordancewith their own view of the experience of 1907-10.That would be working for real Party unity, for a rapprochementon a single line of Social-Democratic activity. Byrefusing to do so the Golosists are in fact carrying out theprogramme of the liquidators. What, indeed, is the programmeof the liquidators on this question? It consists in ignoringthe decisions of the underground Party which is doomedto perdition, etc., counterposing to the decisions of theParty the amorphous “work” of free lances who call themselvesSocial-Democrats and who have ensconced themselvesin various legal journals, legal societies, etc., cheek byjowl with liberals, Narodniks and Bezzaglavtsi. We donot need any resolutions, any “estimate of the situation”,any definition of our immediate aims of struggle or ourattitude to the bourgeois parties—we call all this (followingMilyukov!) the “dictatorship of exclusive undergroundcircles” (without noticing that by our amorphousness, lackof organisation and fragmented state we are actually surrenderingthe “dictatorship” to the liberal circles!).Yes, yes, there is no doubt that the liquidators can demandnothing more from the Golosists as regards their attitudeto Party decisions than that they should deride them contemptuouslyand ignore them.It is impossible to discuss seriously the opinion that theresolution of the Central Committee on the state of affairsin the Party in 1909-10 is “least of all” connected with theLondon heritage, because the absurdity of this opinionleaps to the eye. It is nothing but mockery of the Partyto say: we are prepared to take into account its “whole pasthistory” but not that part of it which is directly connectedwith the present, nor the present itself! In other words: weare prepared to take into account anything that does notdefine our present actions. We are prepared (in 1910) totake into account “the whole past history” of Social-Democracyexcept the past history which contains the resolutionsadopted on the Cadet Party in the years 1907-08-09,on the Trudovik parties in 1907-08-09, on the aimsof our struggle in 1907-08-09. We are prepared totake into account everything except what is essential tobecoming pro-Party in practice here and now, to conduct-