LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
Comrade Martov thought, but the revolutionary
class, the proletariat, must envelop the Party, including
 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 Democrats.
 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 government
 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 economic
 struggle, but also by the direct and conscious
 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 Social
 Democratic organization, of that there can be
no two opinions among Social Democrats. But on

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