LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
instructions of the Party centres, or else, resign 
their membership of the Duma, and the Bogostroyi- 
telli (God Creators, Tr.), who, together with the 
bourgeois intelligentzia, began to create a “Socialist 
god” in the period of the reaction. In the resolu- 
tion passed at an enlarged conference of the editors 
of the Bolshevik central organ “Proletarii” amd 
representatives from the largest proletarian cen- 
tres, held in 1909, we read that “in the ranks of 
the Bolshevik fraction there are elements which 
are not sufficiently imbued with a proletarian point 
of view. These elements more and more reveal 
their lack of Social Democratic consistency, and 
come more and more sharply in opposition to the 
fundamental revolutionary Social Democratic tac- 
tics. During the past year they have been creating 
a tendency to formulate a theory of Otzovism and 
Ultimatism, but which, in fact, reduces to a prin- 
ciple and renders more profound the false impres- 
sions concerning Social Democrats, parliamentar- 
ism and Social Democratic work in the Duma . . . 
In spite of their revolutionary phraseology, Otzov- 
ism and TUltimatism, to a considerable degree, 
represent the reverse sides of constitutional illu- 
sions inspired by the hope that the Duma itself can 
satisfy the pressing needs of the people and are 
actually substituting proletarian ideology by petty- 
bourgeois tendencies. So-called Ultimatism is caus- 
ing no less harm to the cause of Social Democracy 
than open Otzovism. Politically Ultimatism at the 
present time, in no way differs from Otzovism. By 
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