LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
engaged in self-education with the cooperation of
one or two Party members should sometimes not
even be acquainted with the fact that they belong
to the Party, etc.”
Here we have still more material for the question
of “the open vizor”! While the draft of Comrade
Martov altogether fails to deal with the question of
the relation of Party to organization, I on the other
hand, almost a year prior to the Congress, pointed
out that certain organizations should belong to the
Party and others not. In “A Letter to a Comrade”
we already find clearly adumbrated the idea which
I defended at the congress. The matter can be
plainly put as follows. According to degree of
organization in general, and of conspiratorialness
in particular, the following categories may be distinguished:
 1) organizations of revolutionaries;
2) organizations of workers, as wide and varied as
possible (I confine myself to the working class,
taking it for granted that under given conditions
certain elements of other classes will also form part
of these organizations. These two categories comprise
 the Party. Further, 3) workers’ organizations
 associated with the Party; 4) workers’ organizations
 not associated with the Party, but in fact
submitting to its control and guidance; 5) unorganized
 elements of the working class, who partially
submit to the guidance of the Social Democratic
Party, at least, in the more important manifestations
 of the class struggle. That approximately is
the matter from my point of view. From the point

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