LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
their attempts to present the individual cases of 
boycott of representative institutions which have 
occured at various periods of the revolution in a 
manner as to make it appear that the boycott is 
a distinguishing feature of the tactics of Bolshevism 
also in the period of counter-revolution, the Ultima- 
tists and Otzovists show that their tendencies are 
nothing more than the reverse side of Menshevism, 
which advocates the wholesale participation in all 
representative institutions irrespective of the stage 
of development of the revolution, and irrespective 
of the existence or absence of a revolutionary 
movement . . ” 
In view of this, the enlarged conference of the 
Editorial Board of “Proletarii” declares, “that Bol- 
shevism, as a definite tendency in the R. S. D. L. P. 
has nothing in common with Otzovism and Ulti- 
Matism and that the Bolshevist fraction must most 
determinedly combat these departures from the 
bath of revolutionary Marxism.” 
Similarly, the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, repudiated 
the “god creators” in philosophy; from the Makhists 
and similar empiro-critics who abandoned prole- 
tarian philosophy — historical materialism, and 
brought to the working class a hash of bourgeois 
idealism, Many Social Democrats, even some of 
the best in Western Europe, strongly condemned 
Lenin’s irreconcilable attitude, and called him a 
Schismatic and disruptor of the labor movement. 
It is quite evident today, however, that it was pre- 
cisely this intolerance on Lenin’s part towards all 
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