LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
promised some day to reveal to Comrade Axelrod 
in secret, but the real, genuine, bourgeois demoe- 
racy which in Germany has no less learned and 
observant representatives than our gentlemen of 
the “Osvobozhdenie.” German bourgeois democracy 
immediately reacted to the new dispute and—Ilike 
Russian bourgeois democracy and bourgeois democ- 
racy everywhere—at once took up the cudgels in 
defense of the opportunist wing of the Social Demo- 
cratic Party. The prominent organ of the German 
Stock Exchange capital, the “Frankfurter Zeitung,” 
printed a weighty leader (see “Frankfurter Zeit- 
ung,” 1904, April 7, No. 97, Evening Edition), from 
which it is clear that unconscious plagiarisms 
of Axelrod are becoming a veritable disease with the 
German press. The terrible democrats of the 
Frankfurt Stock Exchange set out to denounce 
“absolutism” in the Social Democratic Party, the 
“Party dictatorship,” the ‘autocratic rule of the 
Party authorities,” the “excommunications,” which 
attempt to “punish the whole of revisionism” (re- 
member the “false accusations of opportunism’), 
the demand for “blind obedience,” “deadly disci- 
pline,” the demand for “lackey-like subordination,” 
and the transformation of the members of the Party 
into “political corpses” (this is rather stronger than 
screws and wheels!) “Every personal peculiarity,” 
exclaim the knights of the bourse, indignant at the 
anti-democratic habits of the Social Democrats, 
“every manifestation of individuality must be per- 
secuted, for it was threatened to lead to a state of 
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