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

FACTION OF SUPPORTERS OF OTZOVISM AND GOD-BUILDERS37tive, flexibility of mind, resourcefulness and independentwork on a novel historical task. But in actual fact this taskcan appear particularly difficult only to people who areincapable of independent thought and independent effort:actually this task, like every specific task of a given moment,is easier than others because its solvability is determinedentirely by the conditions of the given moment. In a periodof “acute and increasing reaction” to solve the problem oforganising “training schools and groups” in a really seriousway, i.e., one that really connects them with the massmovement, that really subordinates them to it, is quite impossible,for it is a task set stupidly by people who havecopied the formulation of it from a good pamphlet, whichwas based on the conditions of a different period. But tosolve the problem of subordinating the speeches, actionsand policy of the Social-Democrats in the Third Duma tothe mass party and the interests of the masses is possible.It is not easy, compared with the “easy” matter of repeatingthings learned by heart, but it can be done. However we exertall the forces of the Party now, we cannot solve the problemof a Social-Democratic (and not anarchist) organisation of“training schools” at the present “inter-revolutionary” moment,for the solution of this problem requires altogetherdifferent historical conditions. On the contrary, by exertingall our forces we shall solve (and we are already beginningto solve) the problem of utilising the Third Duma in a revolutionarySocial-Democratic way. And we shall do so, O youotzovists and ultimatumists wronged by removal and theharshness of God, not in order to put parliamentarism onsome high pedestal, not to proclaim “parliamentarism atany price”, but in order, after the solution of the “interrevolutionary”problem, corresponding to the present “interrevolutionary”period, to proceed to the solution of loftierrevolutionary problems, which will correspond to the higher,i.e., more revolutionary period of tomorrow.IIIThese stupid outcries of Maximov and Co. about theBolsheviks’ standing for “parliamentarism at any price”,sound particularly queer in view of the actual history of