LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
missible only up to the moment that they are decided. 
After these dquestions have been decided by the 
leading organs of the Party conferences or con- 
gresses, these decisions must be carried out without 
any reservation, even if a given member, or a whole 
organization, does not agree with the decision. 
Absolute subordination of the minority to the ma- 
jority,—this is the fundamental principle of the 
Party discipline of the R. C. P., as carried out in 
it by Lenin. 
To acquaint the reader with Lenin’s views on 
Party discipline and Party unity, we include in this 
volume extracts from Lenin’s pamphlet: “Infantile 
Diseases of Left Wing Communism,” which contains 
an excellent description of the qualities of the Bol- 
sheviks which enabled them to capture power and 
retain it under the most difficult conditions: extracts 
from Lenin’s speeches at the 10th Congress of the 
R. C. P.,—giving his views on the heated discussions 
on the Trade Union Movement which arose at that 
time—and the resolution of the 10th Congress on 
Party unity. 
The Party as the Vanguard of the Working Class 
and the Instrument of Proletarian 
Dictatorship. 
We have already seen above that Lenin, as Marx 
did in the Communist Manifesto, defined the Party 
as the vanguard of the working class. In chapter 
two of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and 
Engels, we read the following: “The Communists 
_. . .1in the proletarian movement in various 
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