LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
mate to the petty buorgeois manner of existence 
(work in isolation or in very small groups, etc.). 
And, finally, it is no mere chance that the supporters 
of Comrade Martov’s formula took the professors 
and the students as an example! In the dispute 
on par. 1 it was not that the champions of the wide 
proletarian struggle opposed the champions of the 
radical-conspiratorial organizations, as Comrade 
Martynov and Axelrod thought, but rather that the 
advocates of bourgeois-intellectual individualism 
came into conflict with the advocates of proletarian 
organization and discipline. 
Comrade Popov said: “Everywhere, in St. Peters- 
burg, Nikolaev and Odessa, judging by the state- 
ments of representatives from these centers, there 
are scores of workers engaged in distributing liter- 
ature and carrying on verbal agitation who yet 
cannot be members of the organization. They can 
be inscribed in the organization, but cannot be 
members: but why cannot they be members of the 
organization? That remains Comrade Popov’s 
secret. I have already quoted a passage from “A 
Letter to a Comrade” in which I showed that the 
inclusion of such workers (of which there are not 
scores, but hundreds) in organizations is both pos- 
sible and necessary, and that many of these organ- 
izations can and should be included in the Party. 
The second argument of Comrade Martov is that 
“Lenin thinks there are no organizations in the 
Party except Party organizations”... absolutely 
true! “I, on the contrary, consider that there 
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