LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
that B-v. who (like every practitioner* who does 
any thinking at all) has suffered much from our 
amateurishness, is unable on account of his addic- 
tion to economism, to find a way out of an intol- 
erable situation. No! Society throws up a great 
many people capable of serving the “cause,” but we 
do not know how to use them. In this respect the 
critical, transitional state of our organization may 
be described by the phrase: There are no people and 
there are masses of people. There are masses of 
people, because every year the working class and 
the most diverse sections of society throw up large 
numbers of discontented persons who desire to 
make their protest heard and, as far as lies in their 
power, to assist the struggle against absolutism, the 
intolerableness of which not everybody yet recog- 
nizes but which is being felt with growing acuteness 
by increasing numbers of people. Yet at the same 
time, there are no people, because there are no 
leaders, there are no political guides, there are no 
talented organizers capable of creating a wide and 
yet united and harmonious work which would find 
employment for all forces, even the most insig- 
nificant. “The growth and development of revolu- 
tionary organizations” has fallen behind the growth 
of the working class movement, as B-v. admits; but 
it has also fallen behind the growth of the general 
democratic movement among all sections of the 
population. (B-v. would very likely now admit 
that too). The scope of revolutionary work is too 
* i. e. an active revolutionary worker.—Trans, 
KK