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 polit- 
ical agitators but also Social Democratic agitators 
must “go among all classes of the population *. 
Probably no practitioner will deny that in his organ- 
ization there are thousands of detailed functions 
which the Social Democrats could distribute among 
representatives of the most varying classes. Inade- 
quate 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 work- 
ers,” 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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