LENIN. ON ORGANIZATION
be of the most varied character (from the most
“strict”, narrow and closed type of organization to
the “loosest,” widest, open and indefinite type).
For instance, the distributing groups require the
utmost conspiratorialness and military discipline.
The propagandist groups need to be equally con-
spiratorial, but with a far less degree of military
discipline. Workers’ groups for reading legal litera-
ture, or for discussions on trade union needs and
problems require to be still less conspiratorial, and
so on. The distributing groups should belong to
the R. S. D. L. P. and be acquainted with a certain
number of its members and responsible persons. A
group for studying trade union conditions of labor
and for drawing up trade union demands is not
obliged to belong to the R. S. D. L. P. A group of
Students, officers or clerks engaged in self-educa-
tion with the cocperation of one or two members
of the Party, should sometimes even not be ac-
quainted with the fact that they belong to the
Party, etc. But in one respect we must absolutely
demand the maximum definiteness in every branch
of groups, namely, that each Party member working
in these groups is formally responsible for the con-
duct of their affairs and is obliged to take every
measure in order that the composition of each of
these groups, the whole mechanism of its work and
the character of that work should be known to the
C. C. and the C. O. That is necessary not only
in order that the centres may have a complete
picture of the whole movement, but that the selec-
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