POSTSCRIPT
TO THE PAMPHLET THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE R.S.D.L.P.
Today, September 15, 1912, we have received via Paris the following letter from the Executive Committee, a letter which should make it particularly clear to the German comrades how right we were in protesting against the irresponsible private "informants" of the Executive who are afraid to act openly.
On the 10th inst., the Party Executive wrote:
Berlin, September 10, 1912
Dear Comrade Kuznotsov,
Will you bo so kind as to inform us whether it is true that the constituencies in which all the Social-Democratic groups reached agreement during the elections to the State Duma include the following:
Yekaterinoslav, Kharkov the city of Moscow and Moscow Gubernia, the Don region and Odessa. Kindly send your information as early as possible to H. Müller, Chemnitz.
If we have no news from you by September 17, we shall consider the above statement to be true.
With Party greetings, H. Müller
We answered the letter as follows:
Executive Committee of the Social-Democratic Party of Germany.
Dear Comrades, it goes without saying that all that has been reported to the Executive Committee is based on an untruth and is an invention pure and simple of the liquidators. We can affirm with confidence that that fable could have been told to the Executive only by the Letts, the Bundists, or even by Trotsky's adherents, who only a short time ago closed "their" conference, which they would have liked to call a "party conference", but which was in fact a liquidationist conference. In order not to state anything that could not be confirmed and not to quote our organisational correspondence, we shall limit ourselves here to pointing to a document published in St. Petersburg.
On August 28 (September 10, new style), 1912, the St. Petersburg Marxist daily, Pravda No. 102, carried a letter received from one of Kharkov's biggest factories and devoted especially to the Duma elections. The letter said openly and plainly that "the names of the liquidators' candidates have so far not been announced " and that the liquidators "deny the necessity for a workers' party " (Pravda No. 102, p. 4, col. 1).
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From this alone the German comrades can see how shamelessly the Letts, the Bundists, Trotsky's adherents and all such private informants are deceiving them. The point is, evidently, that all of them, probably including the Caucasians, wanted to obtain money on behalf of pretended "organisations", whose existence cannot be confirmed or verified either by the Party Executive or by anyone else.
Is it possible that the German Party, which has ninety Social-Democratic dailies, cannot -- that is, if it does not want to compromise itself by misinterpreting the state of affairs in the Russian Party -- open a discussion on the R.S.D.L.P., and openly compel all the informants who are hiding from the light of day to present statements over their signatures and produce documents?
After all, Russia is not as far away as Central Africa, and it would not take much effort on the part of the German worker Social-Democrats to establish the truth and thereby also relieve the German members of the Executive Committee of the need to hear unverifiable private stories.
On behalf of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.
N. Lenin
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