LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
and “little groups” into useful and necessary ma- 
terial for Party self-training. 
Light, more light! We must have an enormous 
orchestra; we must acquire experience in order to 
be able to distribute properly the various roles; to 
give one a sentimental violin, to another the stern 
double bass and to a third the conductor’s baton. 
Let us respond to the author’s appeal for hospitality 
for all opinions in the pages of the Party organ and 
in all Party publications. Let us and everyone judge 
our “polemics and quarrels” over the question as to 
whether a “note” was sharp or flat or cracked. 
Only after a series of such open discussions, will it 
be possible to train a really harmonious concert of 
leaders; only if this is done, will the workers be 
placed in a position in which they cannot fail to 
understand us; only in this way will our “general 
staff” be able to rely on the good and conscious 
will of the army, which simultaneously follows the 
lead of and directs its general staff. 
(1903, November 25. A Letter to 
“Iskra’). 
We must train people who shall devote to the 
revolution not only their spare evenings, but the 
whole of their lives. We must set up an organiza- 
tion sufficiently large in order to be able to intro- 
duce a strict division of labor in the various forms 
of our work. 
(1900, December article in “Iskra,” 
No. 1, “The Urgent Tasks of Our 
Movement”), 
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