LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
many of them at greater length. I got the impression
 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 understood
 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 population
 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, writting,
 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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