LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
go wherever the masses are going and at every step 
endeavor to direct their consciousness towards So- 
cialism, they must associate every private question 
with the general tasks of the proletariat, they must 
use every attempt at organization to further the 
cause of class consolidation, and by their energy 
and moral influence (and not, of course, by their 
titles and ranks) gain the lead in every legal prole- 
tarian organization. That these nuclei and com- 
mittees will be sometimes rather small numerically 
is of no consequence—they will be bound together 
by the ties of Party tradition, Party organization 
and a definite class program. Two or three Social 
Democratic Party members will therefore be able to 
prevent themselves from dissolving into a vague and 
formless legal organization. Under all conditions 
and circumstances, and in every possible situation, 
they will carry on a Party policy, they will influence 
their environment in the spirit of the Party and will 
not allow their environment to engulf them. , . . 
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