LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
GENERAL TYPE OF ORGANIZATION.
(From “A Letter to a Comrade on Our Problems
of Organization,” September, 1902).
. . . Now a word about the factory circles.
They are of extreme importance to us: the main
strength of our movement lies in the workers’
organizations in the large factories. For in the large
factories (and works) are concentrated that section
of the working class which is not only predomi-
nant in numbers, but still more predominant in
influence, development and fighting capacity.
Every factory must be our stronghold. And that
means that every “factory” workers’ organization
must be as conspiratorial internally and as “ram-
ified” externally, and that its feelers be stretched
as far and widespread as any revolutionary organ-
ization.” I emphasize that here again the center,
the leader, the “boss” must be a group of worker
revolutionaries. We must break completely with
the traditional type of purely labor or purely trade
union organization, not excluding! the “factory”
circles. The factory group, or the factory (works)
committee (to distinguish it from other groups of
which there should be a great number) must con-
sist of a very small number of revolutionaries who
will take their instructions and receive their author-
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