LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
connection with the discussion on organization. 
“Khvostism” in questions of organization follows 
naturally and inevitably from the psychology of the 
anarchist individualist, when he attempts to elevate 
his (perhaps, at first purely casual) anarchist ten- 
dencies to a system of ideas, to particular differ- 
ences of opinion on question of principle. We saw 
the beginning of this anarchism at the League Con- 
gress, and in “Iskra” we observe the attempt to 
elevate it to a system of ideas. These attempts 
strikingly bear out the opinion already expressed 
at the Party congress regarding the difference in 
the point of view of a bourgeois intellectual who 
has joined the Party and a proletarian who is con- 
scious of his class interests. For instance, “Prac- 
titioner,” who writes in the “Iskra,” and with whose 
profundity we are already familiar, accuses me of 
conceiving the Party “as a huge factory” headed 
by a director in the shape of the Central Committee. 
“Practitioner” does not even suspect that the “ter- 
rible word” he here employs at once betrays the 
psychology of a bourgeois intellectual who is ac- 
quainted neither with the practice nor the theory 
of proletarian organization. To some people a 
factory is simply a bugbear, where ag it is, in fact, 
that highest form of capitalist cooperation which 
has united and disciplined the proletariat, taught 
it to organize, and placed it at the head of all 
sections of the toiling and exploited population. It 
is Marxism, the ideology of the proletariat educated 
by capitalism, who has taught and still teaches the 
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