The Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.

JANUARY 5–17 (18–30), 1912

LIQUIDATIONISM AND THE GROUP OF LIQUIDATORS

(1)TheR.S.D.L.P. for nearly four years has been waging a determined
fight against the liquidationist trend, which was characterised at the
conference of the Party in December 1908 as “anattempt on the part of a group of Party intellectuals to liquidate
the existing organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. and to replace it at all costs,
even at the price of downright renunciation of the programme, tactics, and
traditions of the Party, by a loose association functioning legally”; (2)ThePlenary Meeting of the Central Committee held in January 1910,
continuing the fight against this trend, unanimously declared it to be a
manifestation of bourgeois influence upon the proletariat and demanded, as
a condition for real Party unity and for the fusion of the former Bolshevik
and Menshevik groups, a complete rupture with liquidationism and the utter
rout of this bourgeois deviation from socialism; (3)Inspite of all Party decisions, and in spite of the obligation
assumed by the representatives of all the factionsat the Plenary Meeting held in January 1910, a section of Social-Democrats,
grouped around the magazinesNasha Zaryaand Dyelo
Zhizni, began to defend openly the trend which the entire Party has
recognised as being the product of bourgeois influence on the proletariat; (4)Theformer members of the Central Committee, Mikhail, Yuri, and
Roman, refused not only to join the Central Committee in the spring of
1910, but even to attend a single meeting to co-opt new members, and
bluntly declared that they considered the very existence of the Party
Central Committee to he “harmful”; (5)Itwas precisely after the Plenary Meeting of 1910 that the
above-mentioned chief publications of the liquidators,Nasha Zaryaand Dyelo Zhizni, definitely turned to liquidationism all along
the line, not only “belittling [contrary to the decisions of the Plenary
Meeting] the importance of the illegal Party”, but openly renouncing it,
declaring that the Party was “extinct”, that the Party was already
liquidated, that the idea of reviving the illegal Party was “a reactionary
utopia”, using the columns of legally published magazines to heap slander
and abuse on the illegal Party, calling upon the workers to regard the
nuclei of the Party and its hierarchy as “dead”, etc.; (6)Ata time when throughout Russia the members of the Party,
irrespective of factions, united to promote the immediate task of convening
a Party conference, the liquidators, banded together in entirely
independent small groups, split away from the local organisations even
where the pro-Party Mensheviks predominated (Ekaterinoslav, Kiev) and
definitely refused to maintain any Party relations with the local
organisations of the R.S.D.L.P.; The Conference declares that by its conduct theNasha Zaryaand Dyelo Zhiznigroup hasdefinitely placed itself outside
the Party.

The Conference calls upon all Party members, irrespective of tendencies
and shades of opinion, to combat liquidationism, explain its great
harmfulness to the cause of the emancipation of the working class, and bend
all their efforts to revive and strengthen the illegal R.S.D.L.P.