LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
and at the same time to defend disorganization and 
confusion under cover of the word Party, is simply 
to utter meaningless phrases. 
“Qur formulation,” says Comrade Martov, *“ex- 
presses the endeavor to create a series of organiza- 
tions between the organizations of revolutionaries 
and the masses.” Nothing of the kind! This 
(necessary) endeavor, is not expressed by Martov’s 
formulation, because it gives no stimulus to organ- 
ization; it does not demand organization and fails 
to distinguish the organized from the unorganized. 
It provides only a name*, and in this respect we 
must recall the words of Comrade Axelrod: “We 
cannot by decrees forbid them (circles, the revolu- 
tionary youth, etc.) or individuals calling them- 
selves Social Democrats (a sacred truth!) and even 
regarding themselves as part of the Party”... That 
is absolutely untrue! We cannot, and there is no 
need to, forbid anybody calling himself a Social 
Democrat, for directly that word expresses only a 
* At the League Congress Comrade Martov adduced one 
more argument in favor of his draft, an argument only calcu- 
lated to evoke laughter. He said: “We could point out that 
Lenin's formula, if taken literally, would exclude the agents 
of the Central Committee from the Party, for they do not 
form an organization.” This argument was indeed received 
with laughter at the Congress, as the protocol records, Com- 
rade Martov assumed that the “difficulty” he mentioned is 
solved only by the fact that the agents of the Central Com- 
mittee belong to the “organization of the Central Committee.” 
But that is not the question. The question is that by the 
example he cited, Comrade Martov plainly demonstrated his 
complete failure to understand the idea of par. 1 and betrayed 
his pedantic and indeed ludicrous method of criticism. For- 
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