LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
The masses will never learn to carry on the poli- 
tical struggle until we help the leaders of the strug- 
gle, both intelligent workers and intellectuals, to 
train themselves, and these leaders can obtain this 
training only by the systematic every-day study of 
all the aspects of our political life, of all the attempts 
to protest and fight made by the various classes for 
various reasons. 
(1902, “What is to be Done?”). 
Politics is a science and an art that did not come 
down from heaven and is not acquired gratis. . . . 
If the proletariat wishes to defeat the bourgeoisie, 
it must train from among its ranks its own prole- 
tarian “class politicians” who should not be inferior 
to the bourgeois politicians. 
(1920, from “Infantile Sickness of 
Leftism’). 
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