LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
should be other organizations. Life creates and
multiplies organizations far more rapidly than we
can include them in the hierarchy of our fighting
organization of professional revolutionaries.” That
is untrue in two respects: 1) “Life” creates far
less active organizations of revolutionaries than we
and the working class movement need; and 2) our
Party should be a hierarchy not only of organizations
 of revolutionaries, but also of the mass of
working class organizations... “Lenin thinks that
the Central Committee should grant the name of
Party organization only to such organizations which
are absolutely reliable of principle. But Comrade
Broucker knows that life (sic!) demands its due,
and that in order not to leave many organizations
outside the Party, the Central Committee will have
to legalize them, in spite of their unreliable character;
 that is why Comrade Broucker associates
himself with Comrade Lenin”... That is, indeed,
a true “khvostist” conception of “life”! Of course,
if the Central Committee consists of people who are
guided not by their own opinion, but by what others
say (cf. the incident of the Organization Committee),
 “life” will certainly demand “its due” in the
sense that the more backward elements of the Party
will become predominant (as had indeed now happened,
 the Party “minority” having formed itself
from the backward elements). But no intelligent
reason can be advanced which would compel an
intelligent Central Committee to allow “unreliable”
elements to join the Party. By this reference to

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