LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
representatives of another class and the only atti- 
tude to be adopted towards them was determined 
opposition. In 1908 Lenin wrote that at the mo- 
ment when the final struggle will take place between 
Labor and Capital, the Mensheviks will be found 
side by side with the bourgeoisie on the opposite 
side of the barricade and will then employ different 
means than they employ in peace-time. Very soon, 
during the imperialist war, after the revolution— 
in March, 1917—and more particularly during the 
October Revolution, this forecast was completely 
confirmed in the eyes of all. 
Lenin revealed this irreconcilability also towards 
the Western European Parties, practically in pe- 
riods of decisive conflicts with capital. In an 
article entitled: “False Talk About Liberty,” written 
in 1920, he wrote: 
“If the Mensheviks are retained in the ranks it 
will be impossible to secure the victory of the 
proletarian revolution and to protect it. This is 
obvious on principle. This has been confirmed by 
experience in Russia and in Hungary . . . . In 
Russia difficult situations frequently arose in which 
the Soviet regime would for certain have been over- 
thrown had the Mensheviks, reformists and petty- 
bourgeois democrats remained in our Party . .. . 
It is generally admitted that in Italy things are 
developing towards a decisive battle between the 
proletariat and the bourgeois for the capture of 
political power. At such a moment it is not only 
absolutely necessary to remove the Mensheviks, 
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