LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
pline. And it is thanks to him that in the Russian 
Communist Party we have a voluntary, intelligent 
discipline, which has not its equal in any other mass 
Party. More than once the enemies of the Party 
have rejoiced (during the Party discussion, for 
example) at the impending collapse of the discipline 
of the Russian Communist Party. But on each 
occasion the Party emerged from these trials 
stronger than ever. The fundamental idea running 
through this discipline has been hitherto, and will 
remain, the following: the interests of the prole- 
tarian revolution and of the Communist Party stand 
above all. 
However, in order that such a discipline may be 
really maintained, complete unity of views on fun- 
damental questions is necessary. We know that 
Lenin created this unity of views first of all in the 
Bolshevist section of the Party, and later through- 
out the whole Party, and resolutely fought against 
all those who strove to disturb this unity. He was 
a determined opponent of all groupings and factions 
within the Bolshevik Party; for they inevitably lead 
to the weakening of the Party, and represent a fatal 
danger to its unity and to the rule of the Soviet 
government. When certain deviations were Ie- 
vealed during the discussion on the trade unions 
in 1921, Lenin, at the 10th Congress ofthe B.C. P., 
demanded that these deviations be resolutely con- 
demned. “We,” he said, “are a Party fighting 
amidst acute difficulties. We must say: in order 
that unity may be preserved certain deviations must 
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