LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
“The Party is the highest form of the class organization
 of the proletariat; it should lead all the other
forms of proletarian organizations, and take a most
active part in their struggles. This it does through
Communist fractions.”
That is why Lenin so determinedly opposed the
so-called “neutrality” of trade unions, and other
labor organizations, the “independence” of parliamentary
 fractions, etc. As a matter of fact this
“neutrality” and ‘independence’ is a most reprehensible
 dependence upon the bourgeoisie and- its
agents.
Lenin taught that the proletariat cannot bring
about a victorious proletarian revolution without
having its own independent, political Party. This
revolution cannot be brought about by trade
unions, or by cooperative societies, although these
organizations play an important part in the struggle
 of the working class for its emancipation from
capitalism. Only because it had a strong Bolshevik
Party was the Russian proletariat able to secure
victory over the capitalists and landowners. Only
thanks to the existence of this Party was it possible
to retain these gains. On the other hand, if the
Party had not had such auxiliary mass organizations
 like the trade unions, if it had not won over
to its side the millions of trade unionists, it could
never have captured power, and still less retain it
in its hands throughout this difficult period. That
is why work in the trade unions and winning them
over to our side is of such enormous importance.

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