LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
level. “If we are to adopt the path of Martov,” 
Comrade Pavlovich said, “we must first abandon 
the clause which demands the recognition of the 
program, for in order to recognize the program it 
must be grasped and understood. . .the recognition 
of the program demands a fairly high level of polit- 
ical consciousness.” We will never allow support 
of the Social Democratic Party and participation in 
the struggle of which it is the leader to be artificial- 
ly limited by demands of any kind (grasp, compre- 
hension, etc.), for the mere fact of participation 
helps to increase consciousness and intensify the 
instincts of organization, but since we have united 
ourselves into a Party in order to conduct system- 
atic work, we must take care that systematic work 
is guaranteed. 
That the warning uttered by Comrade Pavlovich 
on the subject of the program was not superfluous 
was proved immediately, at the very same session. 
Comrades Akimov and Liber, who secured the adop- 
tion of Comrade Martov’s draft* at once revealed 
responsible and controlled expression (and discussion) of 
false views and mistaken tactics . .. “But if legal definitions 
are to correspond with real relations, then the formula of 
Comrade Lenin must be rejected,” says Comrade Trotsky, and 
here once more he argues like an opportunist. Real rela- 
tions are not dead things; they live and develop. Legal 
definitions may correspond with the progressive development 
of relations, but may also (if they are bad definitions) “cor- 
respond with retrogression and immobility.” The latter is 
the case with Comrade Martov. 
* 28 votes were given in favor of Martov’'s draft and 22 
against, Of eight Iskrists, seven were for Martov and one 
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