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 professional
 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 revolutionaries
 concentrate in their hands the conspiratorial
 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 machine
 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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