LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
of blunders (such as the manifesto to society de- 
scribing the evil deeds of the Socialists, and the 
exiling of workers from the capitals to the provin- 
cial industrial centres), rapidly adapted itself to the 
new conditions of warfare and managed to place 
its armies of provocateurs, spies and gendarmes, 
armed with all the latest improvements, wherever 
required. So frequent did pogroms become, em- 
bracing such large numbers of victims and sweep- 
ing off local groups, that the workers literally lost 
their leaders; the movement assumed a sporadic 
character; consistency and continuity of work 
became absolutely impossible. The amazing dis- 
persedness of the local workers, the casual compo- 
sition of the circles, the lack of preparation and the 
narrow outlook on questions of theory, politics and 
organization which prevailed, were inevitable con- 
sequences of the conditions we have described. 
Matters came to such a pass that in certain local- 
ities the workers, because of our lack of resistance 
and the absence of conspiratorial methods, began 
to lose confidence in the intellectuals and draw 
away from them. “The intellectuals,” they said, 
“lead us into defeat much too thoughtlessly” . . . . 
b) Organizations of Workers and Organizations 
of Revolutionaries. 
It is only natural that a Social Democrat who 
regards the conception of the political struggle as 
being coincident with the conception of the “eco- 
nomic struggle against the masters and the gov- 
ernment,” should regard the conception ‘“organiza- 
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