LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
wide sections of the “untaught,” unskilled workers. 
It is in connection with the “striker” in fact that 
the difference between the revolutionary endeavor 
of the Social Democrats to gain the leadership of 
every strike and the opportunist phraseology which 
would declare every striker a member of the Party 
became most apparent. We are a class Party to 
the extent to which we, as Social Democrats, do in 
fact lead the whole, or nearly the whole, of the 
proletarian class, but only an Akimov would draw 
the conclusion from this that should in word iden- 
tify the Party with the class. 
“I am not afraid of a conspiratorial organization,” 
said Comrade Martov in that same speech—but 
added, “for me a conspiratorial organization has 
meaning only in so far as it is enveloped by a wide 
Social Democratic Labor Party.” To be exact, he 
should have said: in so far as it is enveloped by a 
wide Social Democratic labor movement. In such 
a form the assertion of Comrade Martov would 
not only have been indisputable—it would have 
been a truism. I dwell on this point only because 
from the truism of Comrade Martov succeeding 
orators draw the very facile and vulgar conclusion 
that Lenin wants “to limit the number of Party 
members to the number of conspirators.” This, 
truly ridiculous conclusion was drawn by Comrade 
Posadovsky and Comrade Popov, and when it was 
seized upon by Martynov and Akimov its true char- 
acter as an opportunist phrase became obvious. 
This same conclusion is being developed in the new 
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