LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
other forms of government, in which the pretended
servants of the people are in fact their rulers.”
K. Kautsky analyzes at length the disorganizing influence
 exercised by opportunist autonomism in
various countries. He points out that the adhesion
of “a mass of bourgeois elements * to Social Democracy
 is reinforcing opportunism, autonomism and
the tendency to ignore discipline; he reminds us
again and again that “organization is the weapon
which will emancipate the proletariat,” and that
“grganization is the proletariat’s own weapon in the
class struggle.”
,Opportunism is not so strong in Germany as it is
in France and Italy. ‘“Autonomist tendencies with
us have so far led to nothing more than rather
pathetic declamations against the dictators and
grand inquisitors, against excommunication and
heresy hunting and to endless wrangling and haggling,
 which would lead to endless conflicts if the
other side replied.”
It is not surprising that in Russia, where opportunism
 in the Party is weaker than in Germany,
the autonomist tendencies have developed fewer
ideas and more “pathetic declamations” and wrangling.

No wonder therefore that Kautsky comes to the
following conclusion: “On no other question per-*
 Kautsky cites Jaures as an example. The more these
people incline towards opportunism, the more “must Party
discipline appear to them to be an intolerable infringement
of their free personality.”

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