LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
agents). The success of the activities of the sub- 
committee should be measured by the multiplicity 
of circles, the possibility of travelling propagandists 
getting into contact with them, and above all, by 
the correctness and regularity of the work done in 
the distribution of literature and the reception of 
information and correspondence. 
In my opinion, the general type of organization 
should be as follows: the head of the whole local 
movement and of all the local Social Democratic 
activities should be the committee. From it should 
proceed the institutions and branch departments 
subordinated to it, such as, firstly, the network of 
executive agents embracing (as far as possible) the 
whole working class mass and organized in the 
form of district groups and factory (works) sub- 
committees. In times of peace this network will 
be engaged in distributing literature, leaflets, proc- 
lamations and the conspiratorial communications 
of the committee; in time of war it will organize 
demonstrations and similar collective activities. 
Secondly, there will proceed from the committee 
circles and groups of all kinds necessary for serving 
the whole movement (propaganda, transport, con- 
spiratorial function, etc.). Every group, circle, 
sub-comittee, etc., most be on the footing of a 
committee or branch department of the committee. 
Certain of them may express a direct wish to join 
the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (17), 
and, provided that the committee gives its approval, 
will do so, and (at the request of, or in agreement 
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