Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

THE TASKS OF OUR PARTY IN THE INTERNATIONAL221opportunist, Danish party headed by the Minister Stauning);(6) the Social-Democratic Party of Finland; (7) theRumanians; (8) the R.S.D.L.P. Bolsheviks; (9) theR.S.D.L.P. Mensheviks (Panin sent a written statement tothe effect that he would not take part in this Conference onthe grounds that it was not a representative conference;Axelrod, however, attended some of the meetings, but didnot sign the manifesto); (10) the Menshevik internationalists;(11) the American group of Christian Socialist Internationalists(?), (12) the American Social-Democratic PropagandaGroup (evidently this is the group I mentioned in my pamphlet,The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution. DraftPlatform for the Proletarian Party, page 24,* for thisgroup began to publish the newspaper, The Internationalist 91in January 1917); (13) the Polish Social-Democrats unitedunder the National Executive; (14) the Austrian Opposition(the Karl Marx Club, which was closed down by the AustrianGovernment after the execution of Stürgkh by FriedrichAdler 92 ; this Club is also referred to in the above-mentionedpamphlet, page 25**); (15) the Bulgarian Independent TradeUnions (which, as the writer of the letter I have in mypossession adds, belong not to the Tesnyaki, i.e., not to theLeft, internationalist Bulgarian party, but to the Shirokigroup, i.e., to the opportunist Bulgarian party); this delegatearrived after the Conference had closed, as also did thedelegates of (16) the Serbian party.Of these sixteen parties and groups, Nos. 3, 8, 12, 13,and 14 belong to the “third” trend referred to in the resolutionof our Conference of April 24-29, 1917 (and in my pamphlet,page 23,*** in which this trend is called “true internationalist”);closer to this Left trend, or between it and theKautskian Centre, stand groups 4 and 16, although it isdifficult to define their position precisely—perhaps they alsobelong to the Centre. Then, group 1, and probably 2, 6 and 7,group 10 and probably 15, belong to the Kautskian Centre.Groups 5 (if this is Stauning’s party) and 9 are ministerialists,defencists and social-chauvinists. Finally, group 11 obviouslygot to the Conference by accident.* See present edition, Vol. 24, p. 79.—Ed.** Ibid.—Ed.*** Ibid., pp. 77-80.—Ed.