LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
labor and improvements in the sense of combatting 
the influence of the petty bourgeois and petty bour- 
geois anarchist instincts which are so destructive 
both to the proletariat and to the Party. In order 
to effect this improvement, we must cleanse the 
Party of elements who have alienated themselves 
from the masses (not to speak, of course, of ele- 
ments who are disgracing the Party in the eyes of 
the masses). We shall not, of course, always sub- 
mit to the advice of the masses, for the state of 
mind of the masses—especially at times of excep- 
tional fatigue and exhaustion due to excessive hard- 
ships and sufferings—is not always of the most 
advanced order. But as far as concerns a negative 
estimate of those who have “adhered” themselves 
to the Party, who have become “commissarized” 
and “bureaucratized,” the advice of the non-Party 
proletarian masses, and often the non-Party peas- 
ant masses, is extremely valuable. The toiling 
masses have an extremely acute flair for the differ- 
ence between honest and sincere Communists and 
such as arouse disgust in people who earn their 
bread by the sweat of their brow, who have no 
privileges and “no pull with the authorities.” 
It is a great thing in cleansing the Party to pay 
heed to the advice of the non-Party toilers. It will 
be productive of valuable results. It will make the 
Party a still stronger vanguard of the class than 
formerly, it will make it a vanguard which will be 
more closely connected with the class and more 
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