LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
of being persecuted, hemmed-in, thrown out, be- 
sieged, driven. Indeed, read the protocols of our 
Party Congress and you will find that the minority 
consists of all those who at one time or other, and 
for some reason or other, have been offended by 
our revolutionary Social Democracy. Here we have 
the Bundists (24) and the ‘“Rabochie Delo” people, 
whom we so “offended” that they quit the Con- 
gress; we have the “Yuzhni Rabochi” people, who 
have been mortally offended by the strangling of 
the organizations in general and by theirs in par- 
ticular; we have Comrade Martov and Comrade 
Axelrod, who were offended by the “false accusa- 
tions of opportunism” made against them in con- 
nection with par. 1 and by their defeat at the elec- 
tions. And all these mortal offenses were not the 
result of intolerable jests, or severe attacks, or 
rabid polemics, banging of doors and shaking of 
fists—as many philistines still think—but the inevi- 
table political result of the ideas which “Iskra” has 
now been advocating for three years. If during the 
course of these three years we had not been idly 
heating the air, but had been expressing convictions 
which were to be followed by deeds, we could not 
do otherwise than fight the anti-Iskrists and the 
“Marsh” at the Congress. And since we, together 
with Comrade Martov, who fought with open vizor 
in the front rank, had offended so many people, it 
only remained to offend Comrade Axelrod and Com- 
rade Martov ever so little, just a tiny little, in order 
to fill the cup to overflowing. Quantity was trans- 
189