LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
virtue of authority, energy, greater experience,
greater versatility and greater talent. We say this
for the sake of those who usually object that too
strict centralization, which is absolutely impossible
to any large extent and which is even directly harm-
ful to revolutionary work carried on under an auto-
cratic government. Statutes give us no guarantee;
that can be provided only by measures of “fraternal
co-operation,” beginning with the resolutions of
each and every sub-group, their appeals to the C. O.
and the C. C. and ending (if the worst comes to
the worst with the overthrow of incapable author-
ities. The Committee should try to achieve the
greatest possible division of labor, remembering
that the various kinds of revolutionary work de-
mand various capacities and that a person who is
absolutely useless ag an organizer may be invalua-
ble as an agitator, or that a person who does not
possess the endurance demanded by conspiratorial
work may be an excellent propagandist and so
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