LENIN ON ORGANIZATION influential on account of its activities and its con- sistent revolutionary policy (in our case the “Iskra” organization). During the period of the restoration of the Party as an actual unity in which the obsolete circles have been fused, the peak is the Party con- gress, the supreme organ of the Party; the congress, as far as is possible, unites all the representatives of the active organizations, and by appointing the central institutions (frequently consisting of per- sons acceptable more to the advanced elements of the Party than to the backward, to the revolutionary wing rather than to the opportunist wing) makes them the peak until the following congress. Such, at least, is the case with the European Social Demo- crats, although little by little, not without difficulty, not without disputes and haggling, this practice, so cordially disliked by the anarchists, is beginning to spread to the Asiatic Social Democrats too. It is extremely interesting to note that the funda- mental features I have described as peculiar to op- portunism in questions of organization (autonom- ism, noble or intellectual anarchism, “khvostism” and Girondism) are to be observed mutatis mutandi in every Social Democratic Party throughout the world in which there happen to be revolutionary and opportunist wings (and where is this not the case?). This came out especially clearly recently in the ease of the German Social Democratic Party when the election defeat in 20 Saxon constituencies 175