LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
NOTES.
1 (p. 9), the Economists. See foreword.
2 (p. 11), Krichevsky and Martynov were the leaders of
the “Economists” and the editors of the organ of the
“League of Russian Social Democrats,” the ‘“Rabochie
Delo” (The Workers Cause), which gave expression to
the opportunist tendencies within the ranks of the Russian
 Social Democrats. (In all, there appeared twelve
numbers, from April, 1899, to March, 1902). The “Rabochie
 Delo” asserted that 1) the propaganda of the “Economists”
 and the “politicians” were two different but
essential phases of one and the same process, and 2)
the most important thing was the elemental movement
of the working class masses. After the Second Congress
of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, Martynov
joined the Menshevik fraction and later became one of
its ‘most prominent leaders. During the war he was an
“Internationalist.” In 1922 he joined the Russian Communist
 Party.
(p. 12), The St. Petersburg Fighting Union for the Emancipation
 of the Working Class was formed in 1894 from
a circle of Social Democratic propagandists. Lenin, Martov
 and Krizhizhanovsky were in their time members.
On December 9, 1895, the Union was broken up by the
police and its most prominent leaders arrested. As a
result the revolutionary activity of the Union came to
an end in 1897. There then followed the heyday of Economism
 and the tactics of “petty business” overshadowed
the main aim—the emancipation of the working class.
In 1897 the Petersburg Fighting Union began the publication
 of the Social Democratic paper, the ‘“Rabochaya
Mysl” (The Workers’ Idea) which announced that its
aims were “to fight for the improvement of the economic

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