LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
as a whole, and strives at all the turning points of 
this path to.champion, not individual groups, not 
individual trades, but the interests of the working 
class as a whole. The Communist Party is the 
organizational-political lever by the aid of which 
the most progressive section of the working class 
directs the mass of the proletariat and semi-pro- 
letariat along the right path.” 
This is a condensed expression of the principles 
of the teachings of Lenin on the Party. In his 
speech at the Second Congress of the Communist 
‘nternational Lenin said: 
“A political Party can combine only a minority 
Jf the class, in the same way as the really class 
conscious workers throughout the whole of capital- 
ist society represent only a minority of all the 
workers. For that reason we are compelled to 
admit that only a class conscious minority can guide 
the vast masses of the workers and get them to 
follow it . . . . If the minority is really class con- 
scious, if it succeeds in getting the masses to follow 
it, if it is able to reply to every question that comes 
up on the order of the day, then it is in essence 
a Party . . .. If the minority is not able to lead 
the masses, link itself closely up with them, then it 
is not a Party and is good for nothing even if it 
calls itself a Party.” 
Thus the Communist Party combines only a 
minority of the working class. Until the capture 
of power by the proletariat, and a long time after 
that. it cannot embrace the majority of the working 
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