“When you abdicate your responsibility, others will use it for their own grim purposes.” Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and lecturer, Jordan B. Peterson Put another way, when you abdicate your responsibility, others will step in and do what they want. The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia – before April 11, 1991, the League of Communists of Macedonia – is an excellent example of what should be a responsible party abdicating their responsibility to the country and allowing others to step in.