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their attempts to present the individual cases of boycott of representative institutions which have occured at various periods of the revolution in a manner as to make it appear that the boycott is a distinguishing feature of the tactics of Bolshevism also in the period of counter-revolution, the Ultimatists and Otzovists show that their tendencies are nothing more than the reverse side of Menshevism, which advocates the wholesale participation in all representative institutions irrespective of the stage of development of the revolution, and irrespective of the existence or absence of a revolutionary movement …"

In view of this, the enlarged conference of the Editorial Board of "Proletarii" declares, "that Bolshevism, as a definite tendency in the R. S. D. L. P. has nothing in common with Otzovism and Ultimatism and that the Bolshevist fraction must most determinedly combat these departures from the path of revolutionary Marxism."

Similarly, the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, repudiated the "god creators" in philosophy; from the Makhists and similar empiro-critics who abandoned proletarian philosophy—historical materialism, and brought to the working class a hash of bourgeois idealism. Many Social Democrats, even some of the best in Western Europe, strongly condemned Lenin's irreconcilable attitude, and called him a schismatic and disruptor of the labor movement. It is quite evident today, however, that it was precisely this intolerance on Lenin's part towards all