LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
“factory formalism!” We have here in fact a revival 
of the phraseology of the circles addressed to the 
Party by the editorial board, who feel that they 
represent not a Party organization but a remnant 
of a former circle. The inner falsity of this posi- 
tion must inevitably lead to anarchist profundity of 
thought which elevates the disintegration which 
they phrasically declare to have already outlived 
to the level of a principle of Social Democratic or- 
ganization. No hierarchy of lower and upper Party 
organizations is required—to the noble anarchist 
such a hierarchy is a bureaucratic invention (see 
Axelrod’s article), no subordination of the part to 
the whole, no “formal democratic” definition of 
what are Party ways of “agreeing” or disagreeing— 
let us only dignify the old slipshod methods of the 
circles with phrases about the so-called “true Social 
Democratic” methods of organization. 
Here is where the proletarian who has passed 
through the “school” of the factory can and must 
teach a lesson to the anarchist individualist. The 
class conscious worker long ago came out of his 
swaddling clothes when he learned to fight shy of 
the intellectual as such. The class-conscious worker 
knows how to value the richer store of knowledge, 
that wider political outlook which he finds among 
the Social Democratic intellectuals. But as a real 
Party is developed the class conscious worker must 
learn to distinguish between the psychology of the 
fighter in the proletarian army from the psychology 
of the bourgeois intellectual who makes a brave 
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