LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
of organization: such as, for instance, circles for 
distributing and broadcasting literature (this is one 
of the most important functions; it must be so 
organized as to provide us with a real postal service 
of our own; not only the methods of distributing 
literature but also of delivering it in the homes 
must be carefully studied and tested, and the home 
of every worker and the way to it must be well 
learned) ; circles for reading illegal literature; groups 
for keeping a watch on spies *; circles for 
the economic struggle, groups of agitators and 
propagandists who know how to start and to carry 
specific leadership of the trade union movement and 
on long conversations in a legal manner (on the 
subject of machinery, inspectors, etc.), and so be 
able to speak safely in public, to examine people 
and feel how the land lies **. The factory sub- 
committee should endeavor to embrace the whole 
factory and the largest possible number of the 
workers in a network of circles of all kinds (or 
* We must get the workers to understand that while the 
killing of spies, provocateurs and traitors may sometimes, of 
course, be absolutely unavoidable, it is highly undesirable 
and mistaken to make a system of it, and that our endeavor 
should be to create an organization which will be able to 
render spies innocuous by exposing them and tracking them 
down. To root out spies altogether is impossible, but to 
create an organization which will track them out and educate 
the working class masses is both possible and necessary. 
** We also need fighting groups, in which workers who 
have had military training or who are particularly muscular 
and agile should be enrolled, to be used in the event of 
demonstrations, prison releases, etc. 
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