LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
sible under conspiratorial conditions: one has only
to desire it and it is always, and will always, be
possible to hand over (or transmit) reports and
contacts as long as we have committees, a C. C.
and a C. O.
We have arrived at a very important principle of
all Party organization and all Party activity: while,
as far as the intellectual and practical leadership
of the movement and the revolutionary struggle of
the proletariat is concerned, the greatest possible
decentralization is required, as far as keeping the
Party centre (and therefore the Party as a whole),
informed regarding the movement and as far as
responsibility to the Party are concerned, the greatest
 possible decentralize is required. The leadership
 of the movement should be entrusted to the
smallest possible number of uniform groups of
professional revolutionaries who have been trained
in the school of experience. The greatest possible
number of diverse and heterogeneous groups of
every section of the proletariat (and other classes
of the population) should take part in the movement.
 The Party centre must always have before
it not only exact information regarding the activities
of each of the groups, but also the fullest possible
facts regarding its composition. The leadership
of the movement must be centralized. We must
also, (and for that very reason, for without information
 we cannot have decentralization) as far as
possible, decentralization responsibility to the Party
on the part of every individual member and every

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