LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
again without difficulty to illegal conditions when
circumstances demanded it.
What form of organization the Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party assumed at that time can
be seen from the following description of the St.
Petersburg organization written by Comrade Lenin
in an article entitled: “The St. Petersburg Split in
1907’. He wrote:
“The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party is
organized democratically. This means that the
business of the Party is conducted by its members,
directly or through representatives, and that all
members are equal without exception. All the officials,
 all the leading bodies, all the institutions of
the party are elected, responsible and may be recalled.
 The business of the Petersburg organization
 is conducted by the elected Petersburg Committee
 of the Russian Social Democratic Labor
Party. The supreme body of the Petersburg organization,
 in view of it being impossible to gather
all the members together at one time, (nearly 6,000
members), is a delegate conference of the organization.
 All the members of the party have the right
to send delegates to this conference: one delegate
for a definite number of Party members. For example,
 at the last conference, it was decided to elect
one delegate for every 50 members. These delegates
 must be elected by all the members of the
Party, and the decision of the delegates is the su-Preme
 and final decision obligatory for the whole
of the local organization. But this is not all. In order

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