LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
a German Comrade Akimov and somewhat greater 
than a German Comrade Egorov. 
Comrade Wolfgang Heine took up the campaign 
in the “Socialist Monthly” with no less pomp than 
Comrade Axelrod in the new “Iskra.” “Democratic 
Notes on the Gohre Incident”—how precious is the 
title alone (Sozialistische Monatsheft,” No. 4). 
The contents are no less weighty. Comrade W. 
Heine protests against “the attempt against the 
autonomy of the electoral constituency,” he insists 
upon ‘the democratic principle,” he objects to the 
interference of “an appointed authority” (i. e. the 
Central Committee of the Party) in the free elec- 
tion of the delegates of the people. It is not only 
a question of a chance incident, Comrade W. Heine 
informs us, but of a “general tendency towards bu- 
reaucracy and centralism within the Party,” a ten- 
dency which has long made itself felt, but which 
has now become especially dangerous. It must be 
“recognized in principle that the local Party organ- 
izations are the shapers of their own life (a plagiar- 
ism on the brochure of Comrade Martov, “Once 
More in the Minority’). One “must not get used 
to the idea that all important political decisions are 
to proceed from one centre’; the Party must be 
warned against “the doctrinaire policy which has 
lost all contact with life” (appropriated from the 
speech of Comrade Martov at the Party congress 
to the effect that “life demands its own”). ¢. .. If 
we probe to the root of things,” Comrade W. Heine 
goes on to broaden his argument, “and forget 
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