LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
tion of revolutionaries” as being more or less 
coincident with the conception “organization of 
workers.” And this, in fact, is the case; so that 
when we talk of organization we are literally talking 
different languages. I recall, for instance, a con- 
versation I once had with a fairly consistent eco- 
nomist (1) with whom I had not been previously 
acquainted. We were talking about the brochure 
“Who Will Make the Political Revolution?” and we 
were very soon agreed that its chief defect was that 
it ignored the question of organization. We were 
beginning to believe ourselves in complete agree- 
ment, — but as the conversation proceeded it 
appeared that we were talking of different things. 
My interlocutor accused the author of ignoring 
strike funds, mutual aid societies, etc., whereas I 
had in mind an organization of revolutionaries, as 
an essential factor in “making” the political revolu- 
tion. Once that difference became clear I do not 
remember to have found myself in agreement with 
that economist on any question of importance 
again! 
Wherein lay the source of our disagreement? It 
lay in the fact that on questions both of organiza- 
tion and politics the economists are forever lapsing 
from Social Democracy into trade unionism. The 
political struggle of the Social Democrats is far 
more extensive and complex than the economic 
Struggle of the workers against the masters and the 
government. Similarly (and indeed for that rea- 
son) the organizations of the revolutionary Social 
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