LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
grounded in principle, and the most Social Demo- 
cratic intellectual elements have remained true to 
the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. The 
exodus from the Party is a cleansing of the Party, 
the departure of its least stable and least reliable 
friends, the “hangers-on” (Mitldufer), who asso- 
ciated themselves temporarily with the proletariat 
and who were recruited from the petty bourgeoisie 
or from the ‘“de-classed,” i. e. from the people who 
have been forced out of some definite class sphere. 
This view of the principles of Party organization 
naturally leads to the line of organizational policy 
which was adopted by the Conference. The con- 
solidation of the illegal Party organizations, the 
creation of Party nuclei in every sphere of action, 
the formation above all of “purely Party, even if 
numerically small, workers’ committees in every 
industrial concern,” the concentration of the con- 
trol of functions in the hands of leaders of the 
Social Democratic movement who have originated 
from the workers themselves—such are the tasks 
of the moment. It is the duty, of course, of these 
nuclei and committees to make use of the semi- 
legal organizations and wherever possible too, of 
the legal organizations, in order to maintain “close 
contact with the masses,” and in order so to con- 
duct the work that the Social Democrats will react 
to every demand made by the masses. Every nu- 
cleus and every Party workers’ committee must be 
“a base supporting the agitational, propaganda and 
organizing work among the masses,” i. e. they must 
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