LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
promised some day to reveal to Comrade Axelrod
in secret, but the real, genuine, bourgeois demoeracy
 which in Germany has no less learned and
observant representatives than our gentlemen of
the “Osvobozhdenie.” German bourgeois democracy
immediately reacted to the new dispute and—Ilike
Russian bourgeois democracy and bourgeois democracy
 everywhere—at once took up the cudgels in
defense of the opportunist wing of the Social Democratic
 Party. The prominent organ of the German
Stock Exchange capital, the “Frankfurter Zeitung,”
printed a weighty leader (see “Frankfurter Zeitung,”
 1904, April 7, No. 97, Evening Edition), from
which it is clear that unconscious plagiarisms
of Axelrod are becoming a veritable disease with the
German press. The terrible democrats of the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange set out to denounce
“absolutism” in the Social Democratic Party, the
“Party dictatorship,” the ‘autocratic rule of the
Party authorities,” the “excommunications,” which
attempt to “punish the whole of revisionism” (remember
 the “false accusations of opportunism’),
the demand for “blind obedience,” “deadly discipline,”
 the demand for “lackey-like subordination,”
and the transformation of the members of the Party
into “political corpses” (this is rather stronger than
screws and wheels!) “Every personal peculiarity,”
exclaim the knights of the bourse, indignant at the
anti-democratic habits of the Social Democrats,
“every manifestation of individuality must be persecuted,
 for it was threatened to lead to a state of

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