LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
I invite our economists, terrorists and ‘“economist- 
terrorists” * to confuse these premises. I will here 
dwell on the last two only. The question as to 
whether it is easier to catch “ten wise men” than 
“a hundred fools” amounts in the end to the ques- 
tion we have considered above, namely, whether 
it is possible to have a mass organization when the 
maintenance of strict conspiracy is essential. We 
can never place a wide organization on that con- 
spiratorial level without which the stability and 
continuity of the struggle against the government 
is unthinkable. To concentrate all conspiratorial 
functions in the hands of as small a number of 
professional revolutionaries as possible, does not 
mean that the latter will “think for all” and that 
the crowd will put forward increasing numbers of 
such professional revolutionaries, for it will know 
that it is not enough to collect together the few 
* This latter term ds perhaps more applicable to “Svoboda” 
than the former, for in an article entitled “The Revival of the 
Revolution” it defends terrorism, while in the article at pres- 
ent under review it defends economism. One might say of 
“Svoboda” that it would, but it cannot. Its wishes and inten- 
tions are excellent—but the result is utter confusion; and 
this is chiefly due to the fact that while “Svoboda” advocated 
continuity of organization, it refuses to recognize the neces- 
sity for continuity of revolutionary thought and Social Demo- 
cratic theory. It wants to recall the professional revolutionary 
existence (“The Revival of the Revolution”) and to that end 
proposes, firstly, provocative terrorism, and secondly, “The 
organization of the average worker,” because he will be less 
likely to be “pushed on from outside.” In other words, it 
Dronores to break up the house in order to prevent it catching 
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