LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
In order to prepare himself fully for his work the 
worker revolutionary should also become a profes- 
sional revolutionary. Therefore B-v. is wrong when 
he says that because a worker is engaged in the 
factory for 1115 hours a day, other revolutionary 
functions (apart from agitation) “willy-nilly fall 
mainly upon the shoulders of an extremely limited 
number of intellectuals.” This happens by no 
means “willy-nilly,” but solely because of our own 
backwardness, because we fail to recognize that it 
is our duty to assist every worker who distinguishes 
himself by his capacities to become a professional 
agitator, organizer, propangadist, distributor, etec., 
etc. We are indeed in this respect shamefully prof- 
ligate of our forces; we do not know how to preserve 
that which we should be looking after and develop- 
ing with every possible care. Look at the Germans! 
Their forces are a hundred times greater than 
ours; yet they perfectly understand that real 
agitators are by no means frequently thrown up 
out of the “average” mass. They therefore at once 
endeavor to place every capable worker under such 
conditions as will insure his capacities receiving the 
fullest development and the fullest employment. 
They make him a professional agitator, he ‘is 
encouraged to widen his sphere of activities, and to 
extend it from the factory to the whole industry, 
from one locality to the whole country. He acquires 
experience and skill in his own profession, he 
broadens his vision and knowledge, he observes at 
close range outstanding leaders from other local- 
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