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but that the “Otzovist” minority were actin “openly. ? 
Such was the situation within the Party at 6time 2 
of the December National Conference of the ie) 
sian Social Democratic Labor Party. 
What is Liquidationism? How is it brought 
about? Why are the “Otzovists” [“Godmakers” 
(27)] Liquidators and Mensheviks turned inside 
out? In a word, what is the social meaning and 
the social significance of the new grouping of ideas 
within our Party? 
Liquidationism in the narrow sense of the word, 
the Liquidationism of the Mensheviks, regarded in- 
tellectually, is the denial of the revolutionary class 
struggle of the Socialist proletariat in general, and 
in particular the denial of the hegemony of the 
proletariat in our bourgeois democratic revolution. 
The denial of course takes various forms, but it is 
made consciously, definitely and consistently. . . . 
Regarded organizationally, Liquidationism means 
the denial of the necessity for an illegal Social 
Democratic Party and the consequent rejection of, 
and exodus from, the Russian Social Democratic 
Labor Party, it is a fight against the Party carried 
on in the pages of the legal press, in legal workers’ 
organizations, in the trade unions and at congresses 
where working class delegates are present. The 
history of any Party organization in Russia during 
the last two years teems with examples of Menshe- 
vik Liquidationism. 
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