LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
These new intellectual groupings may be briefly
described as the appearance of Liquidationism on
both the extreme flanks of the Party and the fight
being waged against it. Liquidationism fully revealed
 itself among the Mensheviks in December,
1908, but at that time the fight against it was conducted
 almost exclusively by other fractions (the
Bolsheviks and the Polish and Latvian Social Democratic
 sections of the Bundists). Menshevik Party
members, Mensheviks who were opposed to Liquidationism,
 hardly made themselves felt at that time
and did not act in a consolidated and open manner.
Among the Bolsheviks both sections were clearly
defined and acted openly, namely, the overwhelming
majority of orthodox Bolsheviks who were firmly
opposed to “Otzovism” (25) and carried out all the
resolutions of the conference in their true spirit,
and the “Otzovists” minority, who advocated their
views as a separate group and received frequent
support from the “Ultimatists’” (26), who vacillated
between them and the orthodox Bolsheviks. That
the “Otzovists” (and the Ultimatists, as far as they
are associated with them) are Mensheviks turned
inside out and Liquidators of a new type has been
repeatedly asserted and proven in the ‘“Proletarii”
(see especially Nos. 39, 42, and 44). And so we
found that among the Mensheviks the overwhelming
 majority were Liquidators and that the protest
and struggle of the Party men against them was
only just beginning; while among the Bolsheviks
we found that the orthodox elements predominated

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