LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
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LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION * 
(From “A Letter to a Comrade on Our Problem of 
Organization”’—September, 1902). 
. . As regards the district groups, one of their 
most important functions is properly to organize 
literature distribution. As a rule, I think, the dis- 
trict groups should act as the intermediaries be- 
tween the committees and the factories, and even 
as transmitters. Their chief duty should be the 
correct conspiratorial distribution of the literature 
received from the committee. This is an extremely 
important duty, for if we can secure contact be- 
tween a special district group of distributors and 
all the factories in that district and of the largest 
number of workers’ houses in that district, it will 
be of great value, both in case of demonstrations 
and in the event of uprisings. To train a network 
of agents for the rapid and correct distribution of 
literature, leaflets, proclamations, etc., is to perform 
the greater half of the work of preparation for an 
eventual demonstration, uprising. It is too late to 
* Although written in 1902, when not a single Social Demo- 
cratic leaflet could be distributed legally, what is said here 
may be equally applied to those countries where our press is 
legal. The extensive distribution of our legal publications 
must be carefully organized. (Editor). 
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