LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
affairs such as exists in France, to Jauresism and 
Millerandism, as Zinderman declared.” Zinderman 
reported on this question at the Party Congress of 
the Saxon Social Democrats. 
To the extent, therefore, that there is any funda- 
mental idea at all in the new phrases of the new 
“Iskra” on the question of organization, there can 
be no doubt that that idea is an opportunist idea. 
This conclusion is borne out by the whole analysis 
of our Party Congress, which split up into a revolu- 
tionary wing and an opportunist wing, and by the 
example of all European Social Democratic Parties, 
in which opportunism on the subject of organization 
is expressed by the same tendencies, by the same 
accusations, and very often by the same words. 
Of course, the national peculiarities of the various 
Parties, and the differences in political conditions 
in the various countries, are not without their influ- 
ence, so that German opportunism is as unlike 
French opportunism as French opportunism is as 
unlike Italian opportunism and Italian opportunism 
is unlike Russian opportunism. But the similarity 
in the fundamental division of all Parties into revo- 
lutionary and opportunist wings, the similarity in 
the manner of thought and the tendencies of oppor- 
tunism on the subject of organization, stand out 
clearly in spite of difference of conditions.* The 
* There cannot be the slightest doubt today that the old 
division of the Russian Social Democrats on questions of 
tactics into economists and politicians was similar to the 
division of the whole international Social Democratic move- 
ment into opportunists and revolutionaries, although the dif- 
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