LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
not diminish, but rather increase the extent and 
the quality of the activity of a great number of 
other organizations which are based upon a wide 
public and can therefore be as loose and as little 
conspiratorial as possible, e. g. workers’ trade un- 
ions, working class circles for self-education and 
the reading of illegal literature, Socialist and demo- 
cratic circles of all other sections of the population, 
etc., etc. Such unions and organizations to the 
greatest possible number and with the most varied 
functions are necessary everywhere, but it is foolish 
and dangerous to confuse them with organizations 
of revolutionaries, to erase the border line between 
them. It is clear from these citations how inop- 
portune was the reminder given me by Comrade 
Martov that the organization of revolutionaries 
should be enveloped by the wide working class 
organizations. I had already pointed out that in 
“What is to be Done?” and in “A Letter to a Com- 
rade” and developed the idea far more concretely. 
Factory circles, I then wrote, “are of extreme impor- 
tance to us: the main force of our movement lies 
in the organizations of workers in the large fac- 
tories. For in the large factories (and works), are 
concentrated that section of the working class 
which is not only predominant in numbers, but still 
more predominant in influence, development and 
fighting capacity. Every factory must be our 
stronghold... The factory sub-committee should 
endeavor to embrace the whole factory—in a net- 
work of circles of all kinds (or agents). ...Every 
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