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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