LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
Axelrod think that this dispute plainly showed the
antagonism which existed at our congress between
the Jacobins and the Girondists of modern Social
Democracy? Is not Comrade Axelrod railing at
the Jacobing because he finds himself in the company
 of the Girondists?
Third example. The dispute on par. 1 of the
statutes. Who emphasises “the proletarian tendency
in our movement’: who insists that the worker does
not fear organization, that he has no sympathy with
anarchism and he responds to the stimulus “Organize
 yourselves!” who warns us that the bourgeois
intellectuals are thoroughly imbued with opportunism?
 The Jacobins of Social Democracy. And
who drags the radical intellectuals into the Party
and are greatly concerned about the professors,
the students, the individuals and the radical youth?
The Girondist Axelrod and the Girondist Liber.
Comrade Axelrod defends himself very clumsily
against “the false accusation of opportunism,”
which was openly made at the Party congress
against the majority of the group “The Liberation
of Labor.” He defends himself in such a way that
by repeatedly chanting the worn-out Bernstein
melody on Jacobinism, Blanquism, etc., he simply
corroborates the accusation! He is now shouting
about the danger of the radical intellectuals simply
in order to drown his own speech at the Party congress,
 which was full of expressions of concern for
the intellectuals.
Those “terrible words” Jacobinism and so forth,

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