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

334V. I. LENINour property and forces to support the anti-liquidationistand anti-otzovist work for the restoration of the Party andits full unity. The violation by the Golosists and Vperyodistsof the conditions they had accepted is a violation ofour agreement. Cancelling this agreement violated by theliquidators and otzovists, we shall work as before for the restorationof the Party and its full unity, for the implementationof an anti-liquidationist and anti-otzovist policy, butwe must carry out this work not with those allies that at theplenum (owing to faith in their promises) were admitted toparticipation in the Party centres. Since, by general recognitionand by repeated statements of delegates of national organisationsat the plenum and at other Party meetings, conferences,etc., it is our Bolshevik faction that has alwaysbeen regarded as bearing the greatest responsibility for thestate of affairs in the Party, we consider it our duty to setout frankly our views on the state of affairs in the Party andon the significance of the steps we have taken.The January plenum in 1910 was of very great importancein the history of our Party. It definitively laid down thetactical line of the Party for the period of counter-revolutionby establishing, in further development of the Decemberresolutions of 1908, that both liquidationism and otzovismare manifestations of the influence of the bourgeoisie on theproletariat. Further, the plenum linked the question of puttingan end to factions in our Party—that is to say, the necessityof bringing about real unity in the Social-DemocraticLabour Party—with the formulation of the Party’s ideologicaland political aims in the present historical period.We are convinced that these two things accomplished bythe plenum in January 1910 are of historic significance andthat their results are much more important, much more vital,much more lasting, than they may seem to the superficialobserver.But these results were terribly vitiated by the muddledphrase-mongering about them. There is nothing so inimicalto the spirit of Social-Democracy and so harmful as phrasemongering.And “conciliatory” phrase-mongering is no lessharmful and liable to lead people astray than liquidationist