LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
XIII. 
“A LETTER TO A GERMAN COMRADE.” 
(Extract—Written August 14, 1921.) 
. The resolutions on tactics and organiza- 
tion adopted at the Third Congress of the Commu- 
nist International marks in my opinion, a great step 
forward by the movement. Every effort must be 
made to carry these two resolutions into effect. It 
is difficult, but it can be done, and must be done. 
Communists had first to declare their principles 
to the world. That was done at the First Congress. 
That was the first step. 
The second step was to give the Communist In- 
ternational organizational form and to work out the 
conditions for adoption into the International— 
which were in fact the conditions for isolating our- 
selves from the centrists and the direct and indirect 
agents of the bourgeoisie within the labor move- 
ment. That was effected at the Second Congress. 
At the Third Congress we had to begin real posi- 
tive work, and, in view of the practical experience 
already gained in the struggle by the Communists, 
to define concretely, how exactly the work was to be 
carried on, from the point of view both of tactics 
and organization. This third step was also made. 
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