LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
many of them at greater length. I got the impres- 
sion that in this resolution we have made a great 
mistake, that we have ourselves cut off the path to 
further progress. As I said, the resolution is an 
excellent one: I would put my name to all of its 
55 or more paragraphs. But we have not under- 
stood how to bring our Russian experience to the 
foreigner. Everything said in that resolution has 
remained a dead letter. If we do not grasp this 
we shall not get any further. 
I think that the most important thing for us all, 
both Russian comrades and foreign comrades, after 
five years of the Russian revolution is to learn. We 
have only just obtained the opportunity of learning. 
I do not know how long this opportunity will last, 
I do not know how long the capitalist powers will 
allow us the opportunity of learning. But every 
moment we have free from military activities, from 
war, we must devote to study. 
The whole Party and every section of the popula- 
tion of Russia is showing great enthusiasm for 
study. That enthusiasm shows that the great task 
for us also now is to study. 
Our foreign comrades must also study. Of course, 
not in the same way as we study,—reading, writ- 
ting, and the understanding of what we have read, 
which for us is so necessary. There is a conflict 
of opinions as to whether this belongs to proletarian 
or bourgeois culture. I know nothing about that, 
but in any case I will say that we must learn to 
read, to write and understand what we have read. 
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