Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Controversial Issues

AN OPEN PARTY AND THE MARXISTS


Published: Pravda Nos. 85, 95, 1 10, 122, 124 and 126; April 12, 28, May 15, 29, 31, and June 2, 1913. Signed: V. I.. Published according to the Pravda text, collated with that of the pamphlet Marxism, and Liquidationism, Part II, St. Petersburg, 1914.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 19, pages 147-169.
Translated: The Late George Hanna
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Contents

I. THE DECISION OF 1908 149
II. THE DECISION OF 1910 153
III. THE ATTITUDE OF THE LIQUIDATORS TO THE DECISIONS OF 1908 AND 1910 156
IV. THE CLASS SIGNIFICANCE OF LIQUIDATIONISM 159
V. THE SLOGAN OF “STRUGGLE FOR AN OPEN PARTY” 163
VI 166