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 unions,
 working class circles for self-education and
the reading of illegal literature, Socialist and democratic
 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 inopportune
 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 Comrade”
 and developed the idea far more concretely.
Factory circles, I then wrote, “are of extreme importance
 to us: the main force of our movement lies
in the organizations of workers in the large factories.
 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 network
 of circles of all kinds (or agents). ...Every

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