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 misconception.
 Firstly, our people are so little acquainted
with the history of the revolutionary movement
that every idea of a fighting centralized organization
 declaring decisive warfare upon Czarism is
dubbed “Narodovolism.” But that fine organization
 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 Chernoperedeltzi
 and the Narodovoltzi. Therefore, to
regard every fighting revolutionary organization as
specifically connected with Narodovolism is absurd
both historically and logically, since no revolutionary
 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-G7