LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
of the conference, setting forth the views of the
Social Democrats regarding the methods of struggle
to be employed during the period of disintegration
and vacillation, are primarily addressed. . . .
The question of the attitude to be maintained
towards the fraction in the Duma has both a tactical
 and an organizational side. As regards the
latter, the resolution on the Duma fraction is but
the application to a particular case of the general
principles of organizational policy as set forth by
the conference in the resolution on principles of
organization. In this connection the existence of
two main tendencies in the Russian Social Democratic
 Labor Party were recorded by the Conference:
 one which places the main emphasis on illegal
Party organization, and the other—more or less
akin to liquidationism—which places the main emphasis
 on legal and semi-legal organization. The
feature of the present moment, as we have already
pointed out, is the exodus from the Party of a
certain number of active Party workers, intellectuals
as a rule, but some workers also. The existence of
a liquidationist tendency gives rise to the question,
is it the best and most active elements, or the ‘“vacillating
 intellectual and petty-bourgeois elements
who are quitting the Party and choosing the legal
organizations for their sphere of activity? It need
hardly be said that the Conference, having firmly
rejected and condemned liquidationism, replied in
the latter sense. The most proletarian elements in
the Party, the elements who are most strongly

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