LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
In 1901 in an article entitled “Where to Begin,”
Lenin wrote:
“We must work at forming a militant organization
 and conducting political agitation even in
‘drab’ and peaceful conditions, and even in the
period of ‘declining revolutionary spirit.” More
than that, it is precisely in such conditions and in
such a period that this work is necessary, because
in the moment of outbreaks and outbursts it will
be too late to set up an organization. The organization
 must be ready, in order to be able to develop
its activity immediately.” This also applies completely
 to the Communist Parties of Western
Europe and of America.
The Communist Parties of Western Europe and
America will be able to fulfill Lenin’s will in the
sphere of organization only when they have set up
proletarian Parties closely linked up with the
masses of the workers and the toiling peasantry,
similar to the Bolshevik Party; Parties capable
under difficult conditions of leading the struggle of
the working class and the toiling peasantry.
In order to establish the closest possible connection
 between the Communist Party and the masses
of the workers, it is essential to reorganize the Parties
on the basis of factory nuclei. In non-party worker
and peasant organizations, Communist fractions
must be formed. It is necessary that every member
 of the Party be active and that the local organizations
 show initiative.
“In the present epoch of acute class war,” wrote

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