LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
with, the committee) will assume definite functions,
will undertake to obey all the instructions of the
Party organs, will be endowed with the rights
enjoyed by every member of the Party, may be
regarded as immediate candidates for membhership
of the committee, etc. Others will no: join the
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, but will be
regarded as circles formed by Party members or
associated with some or other Party group, ete.
In all their internal affairs the members of all
these circles are, of course, equal among themselves,
just as the members of a committee are equal
among themselves. The sole exception will be that
the right of personal contact with the local committee
 (as well as with the C. C. and the C. 0.) will be
possessed only by the person (or persons) appointed
for that purpose by the committee. In all other
respects, this person will be on an equality with
the rest, who will also have the right of addressing
themselves (but not personally) to the local committee
 and to the C. C. and the C. O. The exception
 indicated therefore will not be an infringement
of equality, but only an absolutely essential concession
 to the demands of conspiracy. A member of
a committee who fails to transmit to the committee,
the C. C. or the C. O., the communications of “his”
group will be guilty of a direct infringement of his
Party duties. Furthermore, the degree of conspiratorialness
 and definition of organization of the
various circles will depend upon the character of
their functions, and the organizations will therefore

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