LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
ities and other parties, he endeavors to raise him- 
self to a similar level and to combine in himself a 
knowledge of working class circles and a freshness 
of Socialist conviction with the professional training 
without which the proletariat cannot conduct a 
determined struggle against the excellently trained 
ranks of its enemies. It is thus, and only thus, 
that Bebels and Auers are thrown up out of the 
working class mass. But what to a large extent 
takes place automatically in politically free coun- 
tries must in our country be performed by our 
organizations sydtematically. A working class 
agitator who in any way shows talent and “promise” 
should not work eleven hours a day in a factory. 
We should see to it that he lives on the funds of 
the Party, that he is able in good time to adopt an 
illegal manner of existence, that he has the oppor- 
tunity of changing his sphere of activities; other- 
wise he will not gain experience, he will not broaden 
his outlook, and will not be able to hold out for at 
most several years in the struggle against the 
police. The wider and more profound the elemental 
movement of the masses is, the more will they throw 
up not only talented agitators, but also talented 
organizers, propagandists and practitioners of the 
best kind (of which there are so few among our 
intellectuals, the greater part of whom, after our 
Russian fashion, are rather indolent and stolid). 
When we have companies of specially trained 
worker revolutionaries who have passed through 
a long course of schooling (revolutionaries, of 
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