LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
students and workers who are leading the economic 
struggle in order to create a “committee,” but that 
professional revolutionaries must be trained for 
years from out of its own midst; the crowd will 
“think” not of amateurishness but of training pro- 
fessional revolutionaries. The centralization of the 
conspiratorial functions of the organization does 
not mean the concentration of all the functions of 
the movement. Because ten professional revolu- 
tionaries concentrate in their hands the conspira- 
torial part of the work, the active participation of 
the wide masses in the dissemination of illegal 
literature will not diminish, but on the contrary 
increase tenfold. Thus, and only thus, can we 
bring it about that the reading of illegal literature, 
the contribution to illegal literature, and to some 
extent even the distribution of illegal literature, 
shall cease to be conspiratorial work, for the police 
will soon come to realize the folly and futility of 
bringing the whole judicial and administrative ma- 
chine to bear upon every copy of a publication 
which is being broadcasted in thousands. This 
applies not only to the press, but to every function 
of the movement, even to demonstrations. The 
active and widespread participation of the masses 
will not suffer, but, on the contrary, will increase 
from the fact that “ten” experienced revolutionaries, 
no less professionally trained than the police, will 
concentrate all the conspiratorial side of the work 
in their hands—preparing leaflets, working out 
approximate plans and appointing bodies of leaders 
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