LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
Foreigners do not need that. They require something
 higher, including first of all to understand
what we wrote about the organizational structure
of the Communist Parties, to which the foreign
comrades set their signature, without reading and
without understanding. That should be their first
task. This resolution is too Russian: it reflects
Russian experience, and for that reason is entirely
incomprehensible to foreigners. They cannot rest
content with hanging it up in a corner like an ikon
and praying to it. That will lead us nowhere. They
must understand a part of the Russian experience.
How that is to be done, I do not know. It is possible,
 for example, that the fascisti in Italy are
doing us a great service by showing the Italians that
they are still not sufficiently enlightened and that
their country is still not guaranteed against the
Black Hundreds. That may be very useful. We
Russians must also attempt to explain to foreigners
the fundamentals of the resolution. Otherwise they
will not be able to put the resolution into effect. I
am convinced that in this respect we must tell both
the Russian and the foreign comrades that the most
important thing in the coming period is to study.
We are learning in a general sense. You must learn
in a special sense, in order to achieve the organization,
 the structure, the method and content of revolutionary
 work. If that is achieved I am convinced
that the prospects for the world revolution will be
not only good—they will be excellent,

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