LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
committee, except from its proclamations and gen- 
eral correspondence, or we know about it from 
friends or personal acquaintances. It is ridiculous 
to think that this is good enough for a huge Party 
which is capable of leading the Russian working 
class movement and which is preparing itself for 
an attack upon the autocracy. The number 
of members of the committees must be cut down J 
each of them, wherever possible, must be entrusted 
with a definite special and responsible function, 
for which it must account; a small special directing 
centre must be set up; a network of executive 
agents must be developed to connect the committee 
with every large factory and works, to conduct the 
regular distribution of literature and to supply the 
centre with an exact picture of how the distribution 
is being carried out and of the whole mechanism of 
the work; and finally, numerous groups and circles 
must be formed which will take various functions 
upon themselves or unite persons who desire to 
work with the Social Democratic Party, to help 
it and to become Social Democrats, and which will 
keep the committee and the centre constantly in- 
formed of the activities (and the composition) of 
the circles. That is the way in which the St. Peters- 
burg, and all the other committees of the Party 
must be reorganized; and that is why the question 
of the statutes is of such little importance. . . 
Propagandist Groups. 
...I now pass to the question of the propagandist 
groups. To organize such in every district is hardly 
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