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 revolu- 
tion 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 insepara- 
bly dependent upon the narrowness of our theory 
and our political tasks (although this is not recog- 
nized by the overwhelming majority of the “econ- 
omists” 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 imme- 
diate 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 any- 
thing 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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