LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
situation and against capitalism on the basis of the most
urgent day-to-day interests, and to use the strikes as a
means of conducting the fight”; it renounced the political
struggle and a centralized political Party and placed
exclusive emphasis on the elemental and spontaneous
factor in the working class movement. The “Iskra” (The
Spark), headed by Lenin, which advocated and defended
the full and uncurtailed aims and tactics of revolutionary
Social Democracy, carried on a bitter struggle against
the “Rabochaya Mysl” and the “Rabochie Delo.”
(p. 13), Zubatov, Chief of the Moscow Section of the
Okhrana (the political police) endeavored to direct the
growing proletarian movement along lines acceptable to
Czarism. In Moscow in 1902 was formed under his auspices
 “The Workers’ Mutual Aid Society of the Mechanical
 Trades.” This society was conducted by workers
who were at the same time agents of the Okhrana. In
order to gain the sympathy of the workers the society
even went to the extent of organizing certain strikes,
thereby consciously assisting in deepening the class
hatred of the workers against the bourgeoisie. Czerov
and Worms were two professors of the University of
Moscow who supported the tactics of Zubatov. The
Zubatovists however met with no great success; the
workers very soon discovered their true character and
avoided them.
5 (p. 14), Struvism is associated with the name of Peter
Struve who in the ‘nineties was a “Legal Marxist” and
took part in the First Congress of the Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party in 1898. At the beginning of the
twentieth century he became a leader of the liberal bourgeoisie
 and ended as a rabid counter-revolutionary and
monarchist.
i (Dp. 18), “Svoboda” (Freedom) was the organ of the rather
muddle-headed writer Nadezhin (Selelnski) published between
 1901 and 1903. It has left no particular trace in
the history of the Russian Social Democratic movement.

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