LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
“Iskra” (20) by Comrade Axelrod in order to 
acquaint the reading public with the new views on 
organization of the new editors. At the very first 
session of the congress at which the question of 
par. 1 was discussed, I noticed that our opponents 
wanted to make use of this very cheap weapon and 
in my speech I therefore uttered the following 
warning: “It must not be thought that the Party 
organizations should consist solely of professional 
revolutionaries. We need organizations of all kinds, 
shapes and forms, beginning with very narrow and 
conspiratorial organizations and ending with ex- 
tremely wide, free and loose organizations.” This 
was such an obvious, self-evident truth that I 
thought it superflous to dwell upon it. But at the 
present time, when in so many respects we have 
been dragged back, it is necessary ‘“to repeat the 
old.” By way of such a repetition I will cite some 
extracts from “What is to be Done?” and “A Letter 
to a Comrade”: 
“...A body of leaders, like Alekseev and Myshkin, 
Khalturin and Zhelyabov (21) are capable of polit- 
ical tasks in the truest and most practical sense 
of the word; they are so capable because their fiery 
preaching meets with the response of the sponta- 
neuosly awakened masses and because their bub- 
bling energy is caught up and supported by the 
energy of a revolutionary class.” In fact in order 
to become a Social Democratic party the support 
of a class must be secured. It is not that the Party 
must envelop the conspiratorial organization, as 
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