LENIN ON GRGANIZATION
participant in the work and of every circle belonging
to, or associating itself with, the Party. This decentralization
 is an essential condition of revolutionary
 centralization and an essential corrective
to it. When centralization has been fully established
 and we have a C. 0. and a C. C., it will be
possible for every group, however small, to communicate
 with them—and not only will it be able to
communicate with them, but regularity of communication
 will be established by years of experience
—and the possibility of grievous consequences
resulting from the chance unfortunate composition
of a local committee will be removed. Now, when
Wwe are seriously endeavoring to effect real unity in
the Party and to create a real leading centre, we
must particularly bear in mind that the centre will
be impotent if we do not introduce the maximum of
decentralization both as far as responsibility to the
centre and keeping it informed of all the wheels
and inner wheels of the Party machine are concerned.
 This decentralization is only the reverse
side of the division of labor which is generally recognized
 to be one of the most urgent practical needs
of our movement. The official recognition of a
given organization as the leading organization, the
setting up of a formal C. C. is not enough to make
our movement a real united movement, or to create
a strong fighting Party if the Party centre is cut off
from direct practical work by the local committees
of the old type, i. e. by such as are, on the one hand,
made up of a great number of persons each of which

120