LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
a Trade Union Workers’ Organization” of October,
1900. The fundamental error contained in both
these statutes is that they give a detailed formulation
 of a wide workers’ organization and confuse
the latter with the organization of revolutionaries.
Let us take the second statutes since it is worked
out at greater length. The body of it consists of
fifty-two paragraphs: Twenty-three paragraphs
deal with structure, the method of conducting business,
 and the competence of the “workers’ circles,”
which are to be organized in every factory (“Not
more than ten persons”) and which elect “central
(factory) groups.” ‘The central group,” paragraph
2 runs, “watches all that takes place in its factory
or workshop and keeps a record of events” . ...
“The central group gives a monthly report to the
contributors on the state of the funds” (§17) ete.
Ten paragraphs are devoted to the “district organization”
 and nineteen, to the highly complex connection
 between the “Committee of the Workers’
Organizations” and the “Committee of the Petersburg
 Fighting Union” (elected by each district and
by the “executive groups”’—“groups of propagandists
 for maintaining contact with the provinces
and with foreign countries and for managing stores,
bublications and funds”).
In respect of the economic struggle of the work-€rs,
 Social Democracy—“executive groups”! It
Would be difficult to demonstrate more clearly how
far the ideas of the economists on the question of
trade unionism deviate from Social Democracy,

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