LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
the falsificators of revolutionary Marxism, that
enabled him to mould the monolithic Bolshevik
Party, without which the Russian proletariat could
never have achieved its brilliant victory.
In 1910, the last effort was made to come to an
understanding with the Mensheviks. A plenary
meeting of the Central Committee was convened
at which the Menshevik liquidators were present.
Lenin had already given up all hope of coming to
an understanding with them, but the illusion still
prevailed in the Bolshevik faction that it would be
possible to bring the Menshevik Liquidators to the
path of a revolutionary Social Democracy. That
is why Lenin agreed to this joint meeting being
called. At this meeting, a resolution was passed
unanimously, and in this resolution we read:
“The historical conditions of the Social-Democratic
 movement in the epoch of bourgeois counterrevolution
 inevitably give rise, as a manifestation
of the bourgeois influence on the proletariat, to a
repudiation of the illegal Social Democratic Party,
to a desire to minimize its role and significance, to
attempts to modify the program and tactics, the
tasks and the slogans of revolutionary Social Democracy,
 etc., on the one hand, and on the other hand,
it gives rise to a repudiation of Social Democratic
work in the Duma, and the utilization of legal
possibilities, to the failure to understand the importance
 of both these forms of activity, to lack of
ability to adapt revolutionary democratic tactics

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