LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
group, circle, sub-committee, etc., must be on the 
footing of a committee or branch department of 
the committee. ‘Certain of them may express a 
direct wish to join the Russian Social Democratic 
Labor Party, and provided that the committee Zives 
its approval, will do so, and (at the request of, or in 
agreement with the committee) will assume defi- 
nite functions, will undertake to obey all the in- 
structions of the Party organs, will be endowed 
with the rights enjoyed by every member of the 
Party, may be regarded as immediate candidates 
for membership of the committee, etc. Others will 
not join the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, 
but will be regarded as circles formed by Party 
members or associated with some or other Party 
group, etc.” From the words I have emphasized, 
it will be clear that the idea contained in my draft 
of par. 1 was already fully expressed in “A Letter 
to a Comrade.” The conditions for entry into the 
Party are there directly indicated, namely: 1) a 
certain level of organization, and 2) the confirma- 
tion of the Party committee. A page farther on 
I give examples of what groups and organizations, 
should (or should not be allowed to enter the Party 
and for what reasons: “the (literature) distributing 
groups should belong to the R. S. D. L. P. and be 
acquainted with a certain number of its members 
and responsible persons. A group for studying 
trade union conditions and for drawing up trade 
union demands is not obliged to belong to the R. S. 
D. L. P. A group of students, officers or clerks 
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