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 tac- 
tical 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 Demo- 
cratic Labor Party were recorded by the Confer- 
ence: one which places the main emphasis on illegal 
Party organization, and the other—more or less 
akin to liquidationism—which places the main em- 
phasis 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 ‘“vacil- 
lating 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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