LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
“life creating” unreliable elements, Comrade Mar- 
tov patently proves the opportunist character of his 
plan of organization! . . . “I, however,” he goes on 
to say, “think that if such an organization (a not 
quite reliable one) is ready to accept the Party 
program and submit to Party control we may per- 
mit it to join the Party without hereby making it 
a Party organization. I should regard it as a great 
triumph for our Party if some league of “indepen- 
dents” declared that it adopted the views of the 
Social Democratic Party and its program and joined 
the Party, which would not mean, however, that 
we would include the league in the Party organiza- 
tion”... Such is the confusion to which Martov’s 
formulation leads us: a non-Party organization 
belonging to the Party! Just picture his scheme: 
the Party — 1) organizations of revolutionaries —|- 
2) organizations of workers recognized as Party 
organizations —|- 3) organizations of workers 
(chiefly of “independents”’) not recognized as Party 
organizations —|- 4) individual fulfilling various 
functions, such as, professors, students, etc. —|- 5) 
“every striker.” This remarkable plan is only 
equalled by the statement of Comrade Liber: “Our 
task is not only to organize an organization C11): 
we can and should organize a Party.” Yes, that 
should of course be done; but that requires not 
meaningless phrases like “organizing an organiza- 
tion” but that every member of the Party should 
be definitely expected to work on the task of organ- 
ization in practice. To talk of “organizing a Party” 
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