LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
of being persecuted, hemmed-in, thrown out, besieged,
 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 Congress;
 we have the “Yuzhni Rabochi” people, who
have been mortally offended by the strangling of
the organizations in general and by theirs in particular;
 we have Comrade Martov and Comrade
Axelrod, who were offended by the “false accusations
 of opportunism” made against them in connection
 with par. 1 and by their defeat at the elections.
 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 inevitable
 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 Comrade
 Martov ever so little, just a tiny little, in order
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