LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
to the special historical conditions of the present 
moment, etc. 
“An immutable element of Social Democratic 
tactics under these conditions is the defeat of both 
these deviations by extending and intensifying So- 
cial-Democratic work in all spheres of the class 
Struggle of the proletariat and by explaining the 
dangers of these deviations.” 
This resolution, which regarded Liquidatorism, 
Otzovism, Ultimatism and “god creation” as “bour- 
geois influence upon the proletariat” * and called 
for the deviations both from the right and the “left” 
to be combatted, was passed unanimously, including 
the Mensheviks and the “Vperodists” (the followers 
of the “Vperod”—Forward; Otzovists, etc.). But 
this was only a pretense at agreement; as a matter 
of fact, the Mensheviks and the others had no 
intention of repudiating these deviations. 
Ultimately, this led the Bolsheviks, at a confer- 
ence held in January, 1912, to expel the liquidators 
from the Party and to repudiate them finally. 
Thus ten years of struggle passed by before the 
Bolshevik Party broke with the Menshevik Liqui- 
dators, 
i Up to that moment, as we saw, a certain waver- 
Ing occurred even on the Bolshevik Central Com- 
mittee, on which there were so-called “reconcilers”; 
but Lenin clearly saw that the Mensheviks were the 
* The bourgeoisie gave whole-hearted support to every idea 
directeq towards the liquidation of the revolutionary Party 
of the working class, to the modification of its slogans. ete. 
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