LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
engaged in self-education with the cooperation of 
one or two Party members should sometimes not 
even be acquainted with the fact that they belong 
to the Party, etc.” 
Here we have still more material for the question 
of “the open vizor”! While the draft of Comrade 
Martov altogether fails to deal with the question of 
the relation of Party to organization, I on the other 
hand, almost a year prior to the Congress, pointed 
out that certain organizations should belong to the 
Party and others not. In “A Letter to a Comrade” 
we already find clearly adumbrated the idea which 
I defended at the congress. The matter can be 
plainly put as follows. According to degree of 
organization in general, and of conspiratorialness 
in particular, the following categories may be dis- 
tinguished: 1) organizations of revolutionaries; 
2) organizations of workers, as wide and varied as 
possible (I confine myself to the working class, 
taking it for granted that under given conditions 
certain elements of other classes will also form part 
of these organizations. These two categories com- 
prise the Party. Further, 3) workers’ organiza- 
tions associated with the Party; 4) workers’ organ- 
izations not associated with the Party, but in fact 
submitting to its control and guidance; 5) unorgan- 
ized elements of the working class, who partially 
submit to the guidance of the Social Democratic 
Party, at least, in the more important manifesta- 
tions of the class struggle. That approximately is 
the matter from my point of view. From the point 
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