LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
We must stop to consider these accusations, which 
of course “Rabochie Delo” also makes, 
‘It is known to the author that the St. Petersburg 
economists accused the “Rabochaya Gazetta’ of 
Narodovolism (which is not difficult to understand 
if we compare it with “Rabochaya Misl”). This by 
no means surprised us, for shortly after -“Iskra” 
was started a comrade informed me that the Social 
Democrats of the town of X accused “Iskra” of 
being a “Narodovol” organ. We were of course 
flattered by this accusation, for what decent Social 
Democrat has not been accused of Narodovolism 
by the economists? 
This accusation is based upon a twofold miscon- 
ception. Firstly, our people are so little acquainted 
with the history of the revolutionary movement 
that every idea of a fighting centralized organiza- 
tion declaring decisive warfare upon Czarism is 
dubbed “Narodovolism.” But that fine organiza- 
tion which the revolutionaries of the ’seventies 
possessed, and which ought always to serve as our 
model, was not created by the Narodovoltzi at all, 
but by the Zemlevoltzj (10), who split up into Cher- 
noperedeltzi and the Narodovoltzi. Therefore, to 
regard every fighting revolutionary organization as 
specifically connected with Narodovolism is absurd 
both historically and logically, since no revolution- 
ary movement which really intends to carry on a 
serious struggle can get along without some such 
organization. The mistake of the Narodovoltzi was 
not that they tried to attract all who were discon- 
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