LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
shape itself, nothing is easier than by demagogic 
methods to side-track the crowd, which will realize 
its error only ofter it has undergone the most bitter 
sufferings. The task of the moment for the Rus- 
sian Social Democrats therefore, should be to con- 
duct-an obstinate struggle against “Svoboda” and 
the “Rabochie Delo” which have allowed themselves 
to sink to demagogy.* 
“Ten wise men can be more easily caught than 
a hundred fools!” This wonderful truth (which 
the hundred fools will applaud) appears convincing 
only because in the very midst of the argument you 
have jumped from one question to another. You 
began by talking, and continued to talk, of catching 
a “committee,” of catching an “organization,” and 
now you jump to the question of striking the “roots” 
of the movement into the “depths.” Our move- 
ment, of course, cannot be caught just because it 
has hundreds and hundreds of roots in the depths. 
but that is not the question. As far as ‘roots in 
the depths” are concerned we are ‘“‘uncatchable” 
even now, in spite of our amateurishness; never- 
theless, we all complain, and cannot but complain, 
of the ease with which the “organization” can be 
caught, with the result that continuity in the move- 
ment is made impossible. And if you make the 
* Let it be stated that what we have here said regarding 
“pushing on from outside” and the other views of “Svoboda” 
on the subject of organization, applies just as much to all the 
economists, since they have either themselves preached and 
defended such views on organization, or have allowed them- 
selves to be led astray by them. 
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