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 re- 
vealed itself among the Mensheviks in December, 
1908, but at that time the fight against it was con- 
ducted almost exclusively by other fractions (the 
Bolsheviks and the Polish and Latvian Social Demo- 
cratic sections of the Bundists). Menshevik Party 
members, Mensheviks who were opposed to Liqui- 
dationism, 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 overwhelm- 
ing 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 
206