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LENIN ON ORGANIZATION

to the special historical conditions of the present moment, etc.

"An immutable element of Social Democratic tactics under these conditions is the defeat of both these deviations by extending and intensifying Social-Democratic work in all spheres of the class struggle of the proletariat and by explaining the dangers of these deviations."

This resolution, which regarded Liquidatorism, Otzovism, Ultimatism and "god creation" as "bourgeois influence upon the proletariat"[1] and called for the deviations both from the right and the "left" to be combatted, was passed unanimously, including the Mensheviks and the "Vperodists" (the followers of the "Vperod"—Forward; Otzovists, etc.). But this was only a pretense at agreement; as a matter of fact, the Mensheviks and the others had no intention of repudiating these deviations.

Ultimately, this led the Bolsheviks, at a conference held in January, 1912, to expel the liquidators from the Party and to repudiate them finally.

Thus ten years of struggle passed by before the Bolshevik Party broke with the Menshevik Liquidators.

Up to that moment, as we saw, a certain wavering occurred even on the Bolshevik Central Committee, on which there were so-called "reconcilers"; but Lenin clearly saw that the Mensheviks were the

  1. ↑ The bourgeoisie gave whole-hearted support to every idea directed towards the liquidation of the revolutionary Party of the working class, to the modification of its slogans. etc.

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