LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
tably lead to the weakening of the harmonious work
in the Party and encourage the repetition of
attempts of those enemies who have masqueraded
as Communists and entered the Party to increase
the differences and use them for the purposes of
counter-revolution.
The manner in which the enemies of the prole-
tariat make use of any deviation from the strict
and consistent Communist line of action was made
strikingly clear by the Kronstadt mutiny when the
bourgeois counter-revolution and the White Guards
of all countries expressed their willingness to accept
the watchword of the Soviet system if only to over-
throw the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Russia,
when the Socialist Revolutionaries and the bour-
geois counter-revolution in general employed in
Kronstadt the watchwords of revolt, pretending to
do so in the name of the Soviets against the Soviet
Government in Russia. These facts suffice to show
that the White Guards strive and are able to don
the garb of Communists and even of “left Commu-
nists” in order to weaken and overthrow the bul-
wark of the proletarian Revolution in Russia. The
Menshevist leaflets distributed in Petrograd on the
eve of the Kronstadt mutiny show also that the
Mensheviks make use of the differences within the
R. C. P. in order to give an impetus to and support
the Kronstadt mutiny. At the same time Socialist
Revolutionaries and White Guards declared them-
selves in words against the mutiny and in favor of
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