LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
of the Party. He argues that our Party must be a 
Party of the masses, but he has opened wide the 
door to every opportunist and has stretched the 
boundaries of the Party to complete difusion. 
Under present conditions, this represents a great 
danger, because it makeg it very difficult to draw 
a line of demarcation between a revolutionary and 
an idle talker. That is why we must make the concep- 
tion of the Party narrower. Martov’s mistake is that 
he opened the door widely to every passer-by, when 
it has been discovered that even one-third of those 
present at the Congress were merely hangers-on. 
In this instance, Martov displayed opportunism. 
His formula introduced a false note into the rules; 
every member of the Party must be under the con- 
trol of an organization so that the central commit- 
tee may have access to every single member of the 
Party. 
My formula created a stimulus to organize. 
(1903, from Speech of 11th Con- 
gress of the League of Revolution- 
ary Social Democrats abroad). 
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