“Are we depriving ourselves of Cadet and Menshevik criticisms of the corruption of the working class?”

“One of the Menshevik orators attempted incidentally to represent me as a defender of militarism in general.”

“You'd probably have to put me down as a revisionist Kautskyite Menshevik, or maybe a rightist deviationist with extreme petty bourgeois tendencies.”

“A moderate socialist, he enjoyed the support of the Mensheviks, though he never joined the party.”

“Here he is referring to the revolutionary socialist party which was split between the Mensheviks on the right and the Bolsheviks on the left.”

“The Mensheviks are the representatives of bourgeois restoration and we are for the defense of the workers' state by every means possible.”