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

170V. I. LENINMartov signed a “platform” recommending “revolutionarymass actions” 80 —one has to show oneself a revolutionarybefore the workers!—but when the first symptoms of suchactions appear in Russia, he begins, by fair means or foul,to defend the “Left”-liberal Chkheidze.“In Russia an organised campaign of struggle against thewar has not yet begun....” In the first place, this is not true.It has begun, at any rate, in Petrograd, with manifestos,meetings, strikes, demonstrations. Secondly, if it has notbegun in some other parts of the country, it must be begun.But Martov claims that the liberal campaign “begun” byMr. Chkheidze is “more revolutionary”.What is this, if not whitewashing abominable opportunism?Published in SbornikSotsial-Demokrata, No. 2December 1916Signed: N. LeninPublished according tothe Sbornik text