LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
course, of “all arms”) no police in the world will
be able to cope with them, because such companies
of men who are unreservedly devoted to the revolution
 will enjoy the unreserved confidence of the
wide masses of the workers. And it is directly our
fault that the workers are only too little “pushed
on” along the path of professional revolutionary
training, which they should follow in common with
the “intellectuals”; we only too often drag them
back by our silly ideas of what is “open” to the
working class masses, the “average workers,” etc.
In this, as in other respects, the narrow scope
of our organizational work is directly and inseparably
 dependent upon the narrowness of our theory
and our political tasks (although this is not recognized
 by the overwhelming majority of the “economists”
 and young practitioners). Worship of the
elemental produces a veritable fear of departing
even one step from what is “open” to the masses,
a fear of rising above the mere service of the immediate
 and direct needs of the masses. Have no fear,
gentlemen! As far as organization is concerned,
we are on so low a level that the mere thought
that we can rise too high is absurd!
(e) A ‘“Conspiratorial” Organization and
“Democracy.”
Yet there are many among us who are so sensitive
to “the voice of life” that they fear this above anything
 else; they accuse those who advance views
such as we have here set forth of “Narodovolism,”
of failure to understand “democracy” and so on.

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