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 organiza- 
tions 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 char- 
acter; 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 Commit- 
tee), “life” will certainly demand “its due” in the 
sense that the more backward elements of the Party 
will become predominant (as had indeed now hap- 
pened, 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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