LENIN ON ORGANIZATION rade Akimov frankly declared that he regarded “their aim (i. e. Plekhanov’s, Martov’s and mine, namely, to create a controlling organization of revolutionaries) as unrealizable and dangerous”; he sticks, as does Comrade Martynov* to the idea of the economists that an “organization of revolu- tionaries” is unnecessary. He is “full of the belief that life will penetrate into our Party, whether we bar its way by Martov’s formula or by Lenin’s for- mula.” There would be no need to dwell upon this “khvostist” conception of “life” if it were not shared by Comrade Martov. The second speech of Comrade Martov is as a whole so interesting that it is worth a detailed analysis. Comrade Martov’s first argument is that the con- trol of the Party over members who do not belong to Party organizations “is possible, in as much as the committee, having entrusted a certain function to a certain person, is able to supervise its execu- * Comrade Martynov, it should be said, wants to dissociate himself from Comrade Akimov; he wants to show that con- spiracy (here the Russian word for conspiracy is used by Lenin.—Trans.) does not mean conspiracy (Lenin here uses the word of Latin origin.—Trans.), that the difference in these words conceals a difference of meaning. What that meaning is, neither Comrade Martynov, nor Comrade Axel- rod, who is following in his footsteps, has explained. Comrade Martynov “pretends” that in “What is to he Done?” (as also in the “Tasks”) I did not definitely declare myself opposed to “narrowing down the political struggle to a conspiracy.” Comrade Martynov wants to make his hearers forget that those whom I fought had failed to see the necessity for an organization of revolutionaries, as Comrade Akimov fails to see it now. 147