LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
(¢) The Scope of Organizational Work. 
B-v (8) speaks elsewhere of the “lack of suitable 
revolutionary forces experienced not only in St. 
Petersburg, but throughout the whole of Russia.” 
Nobody, perhaps, will contest this statement. But 
the question is, how is it to be explained? B-v 
writes: 
“We will not attempt to go into the historical 
causes of this phenomenon; we will only state 
that society, demoralized by protracted political 
reaction and disintegrated by economic changes, 
which are still proceeding, is throwing up an 
extremely small number of persons suitable for 
revolutionary work; the working class is throwing 
up revolutionary workers who to some extent 
supply the ranks of the illegal organizations, but 
the number of such revolutionaries does not cor- 
respond with the number the times require. All 
the more so, since the working man, engaged as 
he is in the factory for 1114 hours a day, because 
of his very situation is able to fulfill the functions 
primarily of an agitator, while propaganda and 
organization, the procuring and reproduction of 
illegal literature, the issue of manifestos, etec., 
willy nilly fall mainly upon the shoulders of an 
extremely limited number of intellectuals.” (“Ra- 
bochie Delo,” No. 6, pp. 38-39). 
We disagree with the view of B-v. in many 
respects, and especially with the words we have 
in heavier type, for they show particularly clearly 
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