LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
will be acquainted with the general situation, will 
be accustomed to fulfill the detailed functions of the 
national all-Russian work, and who will test their 
strength in the organization of revolutionary activ- 
ities. This network of agents * will form the skel- 
eton of the organization we need: namely, one that 
is sufficiently large to embrace the whole country; 
sufficiently wide -and many-sided to effect a strict 
and detailed division of labor; sufficiently tried 
and tempered undeviatingly to carry out its own 
work in its own way in spite of all adversities, 
changes and unexpected surprises; sufficiently 
adaptable to be able if necessary to renounce an 
open fight against superior and concentrated forces 
and yet capable of taking advantage of the awk- 
wardness and immobility of the enemy and attacking 
at a time and place where he least expects attack. 
Today we are faced with the comparatively simple 
task of supporting students demonstrating in the 
streets of large towns: tomorrow, perhaps, we shall 
be faced with more difficult tasks, as for instance, 
supporting an unemployed movement in some loc- 
ality or other. Tomorrow, perhaps, we may have 
to be ready at our posts to take a revolutionary 
* It is understood, of course, that these agents can act 
successfully only if they work in close conjunction with the 
local committees (groups or circles) of our Party. Indeed, 
the whole plan we have sketched can be carried out, only 
with the most active support of the committees, which have 
‘already made more than one attempt to achieve a united 
party, and which, I am certain, sooner or later, and in one 
form or another. will achieve that unity. 
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