LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
Democrats must inevitably be different from the 
organizations of the workers designed for the latter 
struggle. The organizations of the workers must 
in the first place be trade organizations; secondly, 
they must be as wide as possible, and thirdly, they 
must be as little conspiratorial as possible (here, of 
course, and below, I have only autocratic Russia in 
mind). On the other hand, the organizations of 
revolutionaries must be comprised first and fore- 
most of people whose profession consists of being 
revolutionaries (that is why I speak of organiza- 
tions of revolutionaries, meaning revolutionary 
Social Democrats). In face of this common char- 
acteristic the members of such an organization 
must abandon all distinction between workers and 
intellectuals, let alone distinctions between trades 
and professions. Such an organization must of 
necessity be not too extensive and as conspiratorial 
as possible. Let us dwell upon this threefold dis- 
tinction. 
In countries where political freedom prevails the 
distinction between trade union and political organ- 
izations is as clear as the distinction between trade 
unionist and Social Democrat. The relation of the 
latter to the former will naturally vary in each 
country according to historical legal and other 
conditions,—it may be more or less close and more 
or less complex (from our point of view it should 
be as close and as little complex as possible), but 
in free countries there can be absolutely no question 
of the organizations of the trade unionists and the 
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