LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
(the so-called Gohre* incident) brought the principles
 of Party organization to the fore.
The zeal of the German opportunists was heightened
 by the question of principle which was raised
in connection with this incident. Gohre (a former
clergyman, author of a fairly well-known book
entitled “Drei Monate Fabrikarbeiter” and one of
the “heroes” of the Dresden Congress) was himself
an avowed opportunist, and the organ of the consistent
 German opportunists, the “Sozialistische
Monatsheft” (the “Socialist Monthly”) immediately
took up the cudgels in his defense.
Opportunism on the question of program is naturally
 associated with opportunism on the question
of tactics and opportunism on questions of organization.
 It was Comrade Wolfgang Heine who took
it upon himself to expound the “new” point of view.
To give the reader some idea of the character of
this typical intellectual, who when he joined the
Social Democrats brought his opportunist habits of
thought with him, it is enough to mention that
Comrade Wolfgang Heine is somewhat smaller than
* On June 16th, 1903, Gohre was elected to the Reichstag
from 15 Saxon constituencies, but after the Dresden Congress
 resigned his mandate. The electors of 20 constituencies
 which fell vacant after the death of Rosenov wanted
to put Gohre forward as candidate. The Central Committee
of the Party and the Saxon Central Agitation Committee were
opposed to this, and although they did not have the right ot
formally forbidding the candidature of Géhre, succeeded in
getting him to refuse to stand. At the elections the Social
Democrats were defeated.

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