LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
agents). The success of the activities of the subcommittee
 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) subcommittees.
 In times of peace this network will
be engaged in distributing literature, leaflets, proclamations
 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, conspiratorial
 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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