LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
for each district, for each industrial quarter, and 
for each educational institution (I know that excep- 
tion will be taken to my “undemocratic” views, but 
to such unintelligent objections I shall reply in detail 
later). The centralization of the more conspira- 
torial functions in an organization of revolutionaries 
will not diminish, but rather increase the extent and 
the quality of the activity of a great number of 
other organizations which are based on a wide 
public and can therefore be as loose and as little 
conspiratorial as possible, as for example, workers’ 
trade union secretary than a people’s tribune, who 
and the reading of illegal literature and Social 
Democratic circles of all other sections of the popu- 
lation, etc., etc. Such unions and organizations to 
the greatest possible number and with the most 
varied functions are necessary everywhere, but it 
is foolish and dangerous to confuse them with 
organizations of revolutionaries, to erase the border- 
line between them, to still further darken the 
already unbelievably dim realization among the 
masses of the fact that for the purpose of “serving” 
the mass movement we require people who will 
devote themselves exclusively to Social Democratic 
activities, and that such people must train them- 
selves patiently and steadfastly to be professional 
revolutionaries. 
Ay, the realization of this fact has become unbe- 
lievably dimmed. From the point of view of organ- 
ization, our chief sin has been that by our amateur- 
ishness we have lowered the prestige of the revolu- 
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