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Liquidationism (Russian:Ликвидаторство) was the ideology among some members of theRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) who argued for the abandonment of the underground party work and transition to exclusively legal political activities.
According to theBolshevik leaderVladimir Lenin, writing in 1909, liquidationism "consists ideologically in negation of therevolutionaryclass struggle of thesocialistproletariat in general, and denial of thehegemony of the proletariat".[1] The term refers to the alleged liquidation of the old-style RSDLP.
Nikolai Rozhkov was identified byLenin as a liquidationist.[2]
In his concluding remarks to the 1914Marxism and Liquidationism symposium, Lenin made the distinction between "Left liquidationism", which is "leaning towardsanarchism", and "Right liquidationism", which is "liquidationism proper" and "leans towardsliberalism".[3]
