LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
instance, in the pamphlet referred to in the footnote,
 side by side with the argument against
narrowing down the political struggle to a conspiracy
 there is described (as a Social Democratic
ideal) an organization which is so strong that “in
order to deliver the decisive blow to absolutism’ it
is in a position to resort either to “uprising” or “to
any other form of attack *. In an autocratic country
 such a strong revolutionary organization, judged
by its form, may be called a “conspiratorial” organization,
 since conspiracy is in the highest degree
essential to such an organization. Conspiracy is
so essential a condition of an organization of this
kind that all other conditions (the number and
selection of members, their functions, etc.) must be
made to conform with it. It would therefore be the
height of simplicity to fear the accusation that we
Social Democrats want to create a conspiratorial
organization. This accusation should be as flattering
 to every enemy of economism as the accusation
 of “Narodovolism.”
* “Tasks of the Russian Social Democrats,” p. 23. By the
way here is another example of the fact that “Rabochie
Delo” either does not understand what it is talking about,
or changes its views “with the weather.” In No. 1 of “Rabochie
 Delo” we find the following statement printed in
italics: “In essence the pamphlet wholly coincides with the
editorial program of ‘Rabochie Delo’ ” (page 142). Indeed?
Does the view that it is impossible to make the overthrow
of the autocracy the main task of the mass movement, or
the theory of “the economic struggle against the masters and
the government” or the theory of stages coincide with the
“Tasks.” We ask the reader to judge, can a paper with such
original ideas of “coincidence” possess firm principles?

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