LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
Comrade Martov thought, but the revolutionary 
class, the proletariat, must envelop the Party, in- 
cluding both conspiratorial and non-conspiratorial 
organizations. 
“_ ..The workers’ organizations for carrying on 
the economic struggle should be the trade union 
organizations; every Social Democratic worker 
should as far as possible support and actively work 
within these organizations... But it would be far 
from our interests to demand that the members of 
“craft” unions should be exclusively Social Demo- 
crats. The effect of that would only be to narrow 
our influence over the masses. Let every worker 
who understands that a union is necessary to carry 
on the struggle against the masters and the govern- 
ment take part in the craft unions. The very 
objects of the craft unions would be unattainable 
unless they united all who were open to even this 
elementary level of understanding, and unless they 
were not extremely wide organizations. The wider 
these organizations are the wider our influence over 
them will be. The influence will be exerted not 
only by the “elemental” development of the eco- 
nomic struggle, but also by the direct and con- 
scious action of the Socialists in the union upon 
the members.” By the way, the example of the 
trade unions is especially helpful in considering the 
disputed question of par. 1. That the unions must 
work under the “control and guidance” of the So- 
cial Democratic organization, of that there can be 
no two opinions among Social Democrats. But on 
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