According to the
Bolshevik leader
Vladimir Lenin, writing in 1909, liquidationism "consists ideologically in negation of the
revolutionary
class struggle of the
socialist proletariat in general, and denial of the
hegemony of the proletariat". The term refers to the alleged liquidation of the old-style RSDLP.
Nikolai Rozhkov was identified by
Lenin as a liquidationist. In his concluding remarks to the 1914
Marxism and Liquidationism symposium, Lenin made the distinction between "Left liquidationism", which is "leaning towards
anarchism", and "Right liquidationism", which is "liquidationism proper" and "leans towards
liberalism". ==See also==