Lenin CW-Vol. 23.pdf - From Marx to Mao

136V. I. LENINgo into the government, he resigned from the Central Committeeand from the party, declaring that he would not be amember of a bourgeois party. In the past few years the Danish“Social-Democratic” Party has in no way differed fromthe bourgeois radicals.Greetings to Comrade G. Trier! “Things are moving”,Huysmans is right—moving towards a precise, clear, politicallyhonest, socialistically necessary division between therevolutionary Marxists, the representatives of the massesof the revolutionary proletariat, and the Plekhanov-Potresov-Huysmans allies and agents of the imperialist bourgeoisie,who have the majority of the “leaders”, but who representthe interests, not of the oppressed masses, but of the minorityof privileged workers, who are deserting to the side ofthe bourgeoisie.Will the Russian class-conscious workers, those whoelected the deputies now exiled to Siberia, those who votedagainst participation in the war industries committees tosupport the imperialist war, wish to remain in the “International”of the ten Cabinet Ministers? In the Internationalof the Staunings? In the International which men likeTrier are leaving?Sotsial-Demokrat No. 56,November 6, 1916Published according tothe Sotsial-Demokrat text