LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
stronger and more widespread will be the faith in 
the power of the Party. And in war, as we know, 
the important thing is to inspire belief in one’s 
strength not only in one’s own army, but also in 
the enemy and the neutrals. Benevolent neutrality 
may sometimes decide an issue. Given such an 
organization, based upon a firm theoretical founda- 
tion and having the Social Democratic organs at 
its disposal there will be no cause to fear that the 
movement will be diverted from its course by the 
numerous ‘foreign’ elements which are attracted 
to it (on the contrary, we see today how, owing 
to our amateurishness, many Social Democrats are 
placing excessive emphasis on the “Credo,” imagin- 
ing themselves to be the only true Social Demo- 
crats). In a word, specialization necessarily pre- 
supposes, and in fact demands, centralization. 
But B-v. while so excellently describing the neces- 
sity for specialization, fails in our opinion to give 
it its proper value in the second part of his argu- 
ment. He says that the number of revolutionaries 
of working class origin is not enough. That is 
absolutely true; ‘the valuable information of a 
close observer” fully bears out our own view of the 
causes of the present crisis in the Social Democratic 
Party and of the means to cure it. Not only are 
the revolutionaries behind the elemental movement 
of the masses in general, but even the revolutionary 
workers are behind the elemental movement of the 
working class masses. This fact is glaringly con- 
firmed by the not merely stupid, but even politically 
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