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 activities.
 This network of agents * will form the skeleton
 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 awkwardness
 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 locality
 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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