LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
to the ballot box and vote for a Cadet even if that 
action makes him vomit. A Menshevik in Moscow 
must vote a pure Social-Democratic ticket, how- 
€ver much hig soul may long for the Cadet.” 
In this instance Lenin had to employ strategy 
against the Mensheviks: nevertheless, even then he 
insisteq upon Party discipline. This insistence 
Naturally became stronger when the Bolsheviks 
finally broke off a1 connections with the Menshe- 
Viks ang Particularly when the Bolshevik Party 
Came to power, 
In hig concluding speech at the 11th Congress 
of the Russian Communist Party in 1922 (this was 
the lag Congress of the Russian Communist Party 
at which Lenin was able to be present) he said: 
“We must always bear in mind that the army 
(our Party) of 600,000 men must be the vanguard 
of the Working class, that without iron discipline 
It will be impossible to fulfill our task. The funda- 
menta] condition for the maintenance and preser- 
vation of our strict discipline is loyalty. All the old 
methods anq resources for creating discipline have 
been destroyed. At the basis of all our activity we 
have 1a4q only a high degree of thoughtfulness and 
Mtelligence. “This has enabled us to maintain a 
discipline that stands higher than the discipline of 
any Other State, ang which rests on a basis totally 
different from that upon which the discipline of 
Capitalist Society is barely maintained, if it is main- 
tained at all,” 
Lenin frequently took up the question of disci- 
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