LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
tions are to be observed in opportunism on the
subjects of the program and tactics, scoffing at
“orthodoxy,” narrowness and immobility—revisionist
 ‘criticism’ and ministerialism—bourgeois
democracy.
In close psychological association with the hatred
of discipline ig that ceaseless, long-drawn out offended
 note which is to be detected throughout all
the writings of the present-day opportunists in general,
 and our minority in particular. They complain
Comrade Martov and Comrade Axelrod when broadened and
developed, must inevitably lead to opportunism in organization.
 The fundamental idea of Comrade Martov—self-inscription
 in the Party—is the false “democratic” idea of constructing
 the Party from the bottom upwards. On the other hand,
my idea is “bureaucratic” in the sense that the Party should
be constructed from the top downwaxds, from the Party Congress
 to the individual Party organizations. The psychology
of the bourgeois intellectual, anarchist phraseology and opportunist
 and “khvostist” profundity—all these are to be found
in the discussions on par. 1. In “A State of Siege” (p. 20)
Comrade Martov speaks of “the beginning intellectual work”
of the new “Iskra.” That is true to the extent that both he
and Axelrod are indeed urging thought in a new direction,
beginning with par. 1. The further the “work” in that direction
 proceeds and the freer work is from wrangling about
co-option the deeper will they land themselves in the mire.
Comrade Plekhanov saw this very clearly at the Party Congress
 and in his article “What is Not to be Done?” he again
warned them: “I am prepared to co-opt you, but don’t go
any further along that road, for it will only lead you to opportunism
 and anarchism.” Martov and Axelrod would not
listen to good advice, What, not go along that road? Agree
with Lenin that co-option is mere ‘wrangling? Never! We
will show him that we are men of principle! And they have
shown it. They have shown clearly to everybody that to the
extent that they have any new principles at all, those principles
 are principles of opportunism,

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