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I think this is mostly scholastic nonsense. That fact that Lenin didn't append "party" to his mention of the Mensheviks or Bolsheviks is wholly irrelevant unless Louis is channeling Pham Bihn's "There never was any split in the RSDLP". The overall conxtext of all these pre-1914 and pre-1917 commentaries by Lenin was contextualized by a large, broad social-democratic movement internationally. Such a movement had *little* manifestation on the ground in Russia itself. Few of the papers in the post-1912 period (when the Bolsheviks consolidated their *control* over *their* wing of the RSDLP). Effectively you had two parties competing and barely meeting together as some sort of united "RSDLP" (though it did happen, most notably the RSDLP organization in Minsk and other parts of Byelorussia). The factoids as presented says nothing about the actual relationship between the two RDSLP groups. David Walters ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
