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 definite
 functions, will undertake to obey all the instructions
 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 confirmation
 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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