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 Russian
 Social Democrats therefore, should be to conduct-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 movement,
 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; nevertheless,
 we all complain, and cannot but complain,
of the ease with which the “organization” can be
caught, with the result that continuity in the movement
 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 themselves
 to be led astray by them.
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