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

FACTION OF SUPPORTERS OF OTZOVISM AND GOD-BUILDERS45fondling and petting the god-builders in the ranks—it is nojoke!—in the ranks of the Marxists and even in the ranks ofthe “also-Bolsheviks”. And when the official organ of Bolshevismstated in an editorial that Bolshevism had nothingin common with such propaganda (this statement was issuedin the press after endless persuasion in letters and personalconversations had failed to stop this disgraceful propaganda),Comrade Maximov lodged a formal, written protest with theeditorial board of Proletary. He, Maximov, had been electedby the London Congress, 34 hence his “acquired right” wasbeing violated by those who dared to officially repudiatethe disgraceful doctrine of god-building. “Why, is our factionin bondage to the god-building literati?” This was theremark that Comrade Marat 35 let slip during a stormy scenein the editorial office—yes, yes, the very same ComradeMarat who is so modest, so well-meaning, so peaceable andso good-hearted that he cannot properly decide to this veryday whether to go with the Bolsheviks or the godly otzovists.Or is this perhaps also a piece of “wrong information”,O unjustly removed Maximov? There is no clique of godbuildingliterati, you never defended them, you never protestedagainst the article “Our Ways Part”? eh?Of “wrong information” on the god-building trend ComradeMaximov speaks in his “Report” concerning the schoolabroad which is being held by the new faction. ComradeMaximov is so emphatic about this being “the first [Maximov’sitalics] Party school to be held abroad” and is sobent on misleading the public on this question, that we shallhave to speak of the notorious “school” in greater detail.Comrade Maximov bitterly complains:“Not a single attempt, not only to lend support to the school buteven to take control over it, was made by the editorial board (of Proletary);while spreading false information about the school derivedfrom unknown sources, the editorial board did not address a singleenquiry to the organisers of the school to verify this information.Such was the attitude of the editorial board to the whole affair.”So. So. “Not a single attempt even to take control over theschool.”... In this phrase Maximov’s Jesuitry goes so farthat it exposes itself.Remember, reader, Yerogin’s hostel in the period of theFirst Duma. A retired rural superintendent (or some bureau-