V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

THESES

1. The four-year struggle against liquidationism.
The Party’s definition of liquidationism in December 1908. The condemnation of liquidationism not for legal work, but for the destruction of the Party. The victory of anti-liquidationism in the legal arena in 1912 (Pravda and the elections).

2. The liquidators’ perpetration of a split. The liquidators broke away from the Party. Their initiative groups are the product and manifestation of the split.

3. The August 1912 Conference is anti-Party in composition, as even the conciliators were forced to admit.
The inadmissibility of foreign groups, which have no direct mandate from any Social-Democratic organisation in Russia and do not act in agreement with it, coming out in the name of the Social-Democratic Party.

4. The resolutions of the August Conference on the fundamental questions of the movement, and above all on the fundamental question of the recognition, full and sincere, of the illegal Party, are distinguished, to put it most mildly, by “diplomacy”, i.e., evasion of a direct answer to the question. In fact, these are liquidationist resolutions.

5. The political behaviour of the liquidationist group in Nasha Zarya and Luch after the (August) Conference has shown the absolute anti-Party character of this group, which was expressed (a) in the preaching of an open party; (b) in sneers at the “underground” in the legal press; (c) in the struggle against revolutionary strikes and against revolutionary mass struggle in general.
The necessity of a resolute struggle against this group as an anti-Party group.

6. The preaching of unity in the legal press, which evades and obscures the essence of the matter, namely, the question of the actual recognition of the illegal Party, is a deception of the workers.

7. The absolute necessity of unity of all trends and shades in the illegal organisation. An appeal for this unity.

Written in December 1912

First published in 1939 in the magazine Bolshevik, No. 1

Printed from the manuscript