LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
NOTES. 
1 (p. 9), the Economists. See foreword. 
2 (p. 11), Krichevsky and Martynov were the leaders of 
the “Economists” and the editors of the organ of the 
“League of Russian Social Democrats,” the ‘“Rabochie 
Delo” (The Workers Cause), which gave expression to 
the opportunist tendencies within the ranks of the Rus- 
sian Social Democrats. (In all, there appeared twelve 
numbers, from April, 1899, to March, 1902). The “Rabo- 
chie Delo” asserted that 1) the propaganda of the “Eco- 
nomists” and the “politicians” were two different but 
essential phases of one and the same process, and 2) 
the most important thing was the elemental movement 
of the working class masses. After the Second Congress 
of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, Martynov 
joined the Menshevik fraction and later became one of 
its ‘most prominent leaders. During the war he was an 
“Internationalist.” In 1922 he joined the Russian Com- 
munist Party. 
(p. 12), The St. Petersburg Fighting Union for the Eman- 
cipation of the Working Class was formed in 1894 from 
a circle of Social Democratic propagandists. Lenin, Mar- 
tov and Krizhizhanovsky were in their time members. 
On December 9, 1895, the Union was broken up by the 
police and its most prominent leaders arrested. As a 
result the revolutionary activity of the Union came to 
an end in 1897. There then followed the heyday of Eco- 
nomism and the tactics of “petty business” overshadowed 
the main aim—the emancipation of the working class. 
In 1897 the Petersburg Fighting Union began the publica- 
tion of the Social Democratic paper, the ‘“Rabochaya 
Mysl” (The Workers’ Idea) which announced that its 
aims were “to fight for the improvement of the economic 
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