LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
That may very well be. I am not out for names. 
But this “organization without members” can do 
everything that is required and it will from the 
very outset guarantee the closest contact between 
our future trade unionists and Socialism. Only an 
incorrigible utopian would want a wide organization 
of workers, with elections, reports, universal suf- 
frage, etc. 
The moral is simple. If we begin with the solid 
foundation of a strong organization of revolu- 
tionaries, we can guarantee the stability of the 
movement as a whole and carry out the aims of 
both Social Democracy and trade unionism. If, 
however, we begin with a wide workers’ organiza- 
tion, supposed to be most “open” to the masses, 
when as a matter of fact it will be most open to 
the gendarmes and will make the revolutionaries 
most open to the police, we shall achieve the aims 
neither of Social Democracy nor of trade unionism, 
Wwe shall not escape from our amateurishness, 
and by our disintegration, our eternal dispersedness, 
We shall make the masses most open to the trade 
unions of the Zubatov and Ozerov type. 
What should be the functions of the organization 
of revolutionaries? We shall deal with this in 
detail. But first let us examine a very typical 
argument of the terrorist, who (wretched man) 
is here too hardly to be distinguished from the 
economist. In the journal intended for workers, 
“Svoboda” (6) (No. 1), there is an article entitled 
“Organization,” the author of which tries to defend 
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