## On Liquidationism and the Group of Liquidators

**Whereas,**

1) The RSDLP has for about four years now waged a decisive struggle against the liquidationist tendency, which at the party's December conference in 1908 was defined as "attempts by a certain section of party intellectuals to liquidate the existing organization of the RSDLP and replace it with a formless association within the framework of legality at all costs, even though the latter be purchased at the price of a manifest renunciation of the party's program, tactics, and tradition"{64};

2) The Central Committee plenum in January 1910, continuing the struggle against this tendency, unanimously recognized it as "a manifestation of bourgeois influence on the proletariat" and set as a condition for genuine party unity and the fusion of the former Bolshevik and Menshevik factions a complete break with liquidationism and the final overcoming of this bourgeois deviation from socialism;

3) Contrary to all party decisions and contrary to the obligation undertaken at the January 1910 plenum by representatives of Menshevism, a section of Mensheviks, grouped around the little journals *Nasha Zaria* and *Delo Zhizni*, refused to help restore the Central Committee (the refusal of Mikhail, Yurii, and Roman not only to enter the Central Committee in the spring of 1910, but even to attend a single session for the cooption of new members);

*Manuscript of the draft resolution "On Liquidationism and the Group of Liquidators," written by V. I. Lenin. – January 1912. (Reduced in size)*

4) These named publications, precisely after the 1910 plenum, turned decisively and entirely toward liquidationism, not only "downplaying" (contrary to the plenum decision) "the significance of the illegal party," but directly denying it, declaring it already liquidated, proclaiming the restoration of the illegal party a "reactionary utopia," pelting it from the pages of censored journals with mockery and abuse, inviting workers to recognize the party cells and its hierarchy as "defunct," etc.;

5) The few, consisting chiefly of intellectual representatives, local groups of liquidators, continuing their work of destroying the party, not only refused the appeal repeated in 1911 to help restore the illegal party and convene its conference, but, having consolidated themselves into completely independent groups, conducted direct agitation among workers against the illegal party and waged direct struggle against its restoration – also in those places where party Mensheviks predominated (for example, in Yekaterinoslav, Baku, Kiev, etc.);

**– the conference declares that this named group, through its conduct, has finally placed itself outside the party.**

The conference calls upon all party members, without distinction of tendencies and shades, to wage struggle against liquidationism, to explain all its harm for the cause of the liberation of the working class, and to strain all forces for the restoration and strengthening of the illegal RSDLP.

*Written in the first half of January 1912*