LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
same town (or with other educational institutions), 
having made no attempt to organize the various 
sections of revolutionary work and possessing no 
systematic plan of campaign calculated for any 
protracted period, established contact with the 
workers and set about their tasks. The circle 
would gradually extend its sphere of propaganda 
and agitation and by its activities would arouse the 
sympathy of fairly wide sections of the workers and 
of a certain section of educated society who sup- 
plied funds and placed ever fresh groups of young 
people at the disposal of the “committee.” The 
power of attraction of the committee (or of the 
league of combatants) would become stronger, its 
sphere of activities extend; its activities developed 
in an absolutely spontaneous and elemental fashion. 
The people who a year, or even a few months 
before, were discussing at students’ meetings the 
question of what was to be done, establishing and 
maintaining contact with the workers and prepar- 
ing and distributing leaflets, now began to set up 
connections with other groups of revolutionaries, 
procure literature, prepare to publish a local paper, 
start to talk of organizing demonstrations, and, 
finally, engage in open warfare (such open warfare 
might, according to circumstances, be the first 
agitational leaflet, or the first number of a newspaper 
or the first demonstration). And, as a rule, these 
activities were doomed at the very outset to imme- 
diate and complete collapse. Immediate and com- 
plete, because the acts of war were not based upon 
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