LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
OPPORTUNISM IN ORGANIZATION QUESTIONS. 
(From “One Step Forward, Two Back”). 
The proletariat has no other weapon in the fight 
for power except organization. Disorganized by 
the domination of anarchic competition in the capi- 
talist world, oppressed by forced labor for the capi- 
talists, constantly forced ‘to the depths” of utter 
poverty, ignorance and degeneracy, the proletariat 
can become and inevitably will become an indomi- 
table force only because its intellectual unity created 
by the principles of Marxism is fortified by the ma- 
terial unity of organization which welds millions 
of toilers into an army of the working class. Neither 
the decrepit rule of Russian autocracy nor the age- 
ing rule of international capitalism will be able to 
withstand this army. This army will close up its 
ranks more and more closely in spite of zig-zags 
and retreats, in spite of the opportunistic phrases 
of the Girondists of contemporary Social Democ- 
racy, in spite of the smug self-satisfaction of obso- 
lete study circleism, and in spite of the brilliance 
and bustle of intellectual anarchism. 
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