LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
instance, in the pamphlet referred to in the foot- 
note, side by side with the argument against 
narrowing down the political struggle to a con- 
spiracy there is described (as a Social Democratic 
ideal) an organization which is so strong that “in 
order to deliver the decisive blow to absolutism’ it 
is in a position to resort either to “uprising” or “to 
any other form of attack *. In an autocratic coun- 
try such a strong revolutionary organization, judged 
by its form, may be called a “conspiratorial” organ- 
ization, since conspiracy is in the highest degree 
essential to such an organization. Conspiracy is 
so essential a condition of an organization of this 
kind that all other conditions (the number and 
selection of members, their functions, etc.) must be 
made to conform with it. It would therefore be the 
height of simplicity to fear the accusation that we 
Social Democrats want to create a conspiratorial 
organization. This accusation should be as flat- 
tering to every enemy of economism as the accusa- 
tion of “Narodovolism.” 
* “Tasks of the Russian Social Democrats,” p. 23. By the 
way here is another example of the fact that “Rabochie 
Delo” either does not understand what it is talking about, 
or changes its views “with the weather.” In No. 1 of “Ra- 
bochie Delo” we find the following statement printed in 
italics: “In essence the pamphlet wholly coincides with the 
editorial program of ‘Rabochie Delo’ ” (page 142). Indeed? 
Does the view that it is impossible to make the overthrow 
of the autocracy the main task of the mass movement, or 
the theory of “the economic struggle against the masters and 
the government” or the theory of stages coincide with the 
“Tasks.” We ask the reader to judge, can a paper with such 
original ideas of “coincidence” possess firm principles? 
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