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

333AN OPEN LETTERTO ALL PRO-PARTY SOCIAL-DEMOCRATSAt the plenary meeting of the Central Committee in January1910, we, as representatives of the Bolshevik faction,dissolved our faction and transferred the money and otherproperty belonging to it to three well-known leaders of theinternational Social-Democratic movement. This transferand equally the dissolution of the faction were conditionalsteps. Our conditions for taking these steps are known fromour statement at the plenum, a statement adopted by theplenum and published in the very first number of the CentralOrgan issued after the plenum.Briefly stated, these conditions were that the other factions(and in the first place the faction of Golosists, i.e.,the Mensheviks who published and supported Golos Sotsial-Demokrata) should carry out their duty loyally, i.e., sincerelyand fully, namely, (1) the fight against liquidationismand otzovism, which by a unanimously adopted resolutionof the plenum were declared to be a sign of bourgeois influenceon the proletariat, and (2) the dissolution of their factions.At the present time, after a year’s experience, a year ofwaiting, we have become completely and finally convincedthat neither the Golosists nor the Vperyodists have fulfilledeither of these two conditions.The result of this conviction as far as we are concernedwas, firstly, the publication of Rabochaya Gazeta and, secondly,the statement about the return of the money andproperty, a statement we handed recently to the CentralCommittee on December 5, 1910.After this declaration the state of affairs in form and substanceis as follows. We had conditionally handed over all