LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
and accumulation of experience): they must there-
fore be specialized, we must put them wholly on
this work and take great care of them. We must
arrange several lectures a week for them: we must
be able when necessary to send them to other
towns, and, in general, arrange for various towns
to be toured by capable propagandists. The mass
of young beginners should rather be put on prac-
tical jobs; these are rather neglected in comparison
with the amount of circle attending which is done
by the students and which is optimistically called
“propaganda.” Of course, serious practice jobs
also require considerable training, but nevertheless,
work in this sphere can more easily be found even
for “novices”...
Various Groups.
In the same way, and after the type of branch
department of the Committee or Committee insti-
tution, all the other groups serving the movement
should be organized—the university students and
high school students groups, the groups, let us say,
for assisting government officials, transport groups,
printing groups, passport groups, groups for ar-
ranging conspiratorial meeting places, groups for
tracking spys, military groups, groups for procuring
arms, organization groups, such as for running
income producing enterprises, etc. The whole art
of conspiratorial organization consists in making
use of everything and everybody and finding work
for everybody, at the same time retaining the leader-
ship of the whole movement, not by force, but by
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