LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
THE LIQUIDATION OF LIQUIDATIONISM.
(From the “Proletarii,” No. 46, July, 1909).
_ . The last two years, roughly from the
coup d'etat of June 3, 1907, to the present moment,
represent a period of sharp and abrupt changes of
severe crisis in the development of the Russian
Social Democratic Labor Party. The National Conference
 of the Russian Social Democratic Labor
Party held in December, 1908, reviewed the present
political situation, the condition and prospects of
the revolutionary movement and the tasks of the
Party of the working class in the present period.
The resolutions passed by the Conference will be
a permanent possession for the Party. The Menshe
vik opportunists insisted on criticising them at all
costs, but only thereby painfully revealed the impotence
 of their “criticism” and their inability to
advance an intelligent, integral and systematic solution
 of the problems dealt with in the resolutions.
But that was not all. The Conference played an
important part in the life of our Party by pointing
to the existence of new intellectual groupings in
both fractions—the Mensheviks and the Bolshevikg.2%
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