LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
to the ballot box and vote for a Cadet even if that
action makes him vomit. A Menshevik in Moscow
must vote a pure Social-Democratic ticket, how-€ver
 much hig soul may long for the Cadet.”
In this instance Lenin had to employ strategy
against the Mensheviks: nevertheless, even then he
insisteq upon Party discipline. This insistence
Naturally became stronger when the Bolsheviks
finally broke off a1 connections with the Menshe-Viks
 ang Particularly when the Bolshevik Party
Came to power,
In hig concluding speech at the 11th Congress
of the Russian Communist Party in 1922 (this was
the lag Congress of the Russian Communist Party
at which Lenin was able to be present) he said:
“We must always bear in mind that the army
(our Party) of 600,000 men must be the vanguard
of the Working class, that without iron discipline
It will be impossible to fulfill our task. The fundamenta]
 condition for the maintenance and preservation
 of our strict discipline is loyalty. All the old
methods anq resources for creating discipline have
been destroyed. At the basis of all our activity we
have 1a4q only a high degree of thoughtfulness and
Mtelligence. “This has enabled us to maintain a
discipline that stands higher than the discipline of
any Other State, ang which rests on a basis totally
different from that upon which the discipline of
Capitalist Society is barely maintained, if it is maintained
 at all,”
Lenin frequently took up the question of disci-323