LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
narrow compared with the wide elemental basis of
the movement, it is too wrapt in the wretched theory
of the “economic struggle against the masters and
the government.” - Today, however, not only political
 agitators but also Social Democratic agitators
must “go among all classes of the population *.
Probably no practitioner will deny that in his organization
 there are thousands of detailed functions
which the Social Democrats could distribute among
representatives of the most varying classes. Inadequate
 specialization is one of the greatest defects
of our technique, as B-v. so bitterly and so justly
complains. The more the various ‘operations’ of
the general work are divided up, the more easy will
it be to find persons capable of fulfilling them (who
in most cases would be absolutely unsuitable for
professional revolutionaries); it will be all the
harder for the police to “catch” these “detail workers,”
 and it will be all the harder to turn the arrest
of a single person on some trifling charge into a
“case” making worth while the sums which are
spent by the government on the “Okhrana” *. As
to the number of persons who are ready to lend us
* For example, an undoubted increase of the democratic
spirit is recently to be observed among military circles, which
is in part due to the increasing cases of street engagements,
with such “enemies” as workers and students. As soon as
the forces at our disposal permit, we must devote the most
serious attention to propaganda and agitation among soldiers
and officers with the object of creating Party “military
organizations.”
* The secret political police.—Trans.

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