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LENIN ON ORGANIZATION

the Bolshevik Party is the factory nuclei. To these nuclei the Party devotes most of its attention. At all non-Party Congresses, conferences and on elected bodies, Communist fractions are organized, the task of which is to increase the Party’s influence and to secure the acceptance of its policy by the non-Party organizations. Hence we see that Comrade Lenin’s fundamental idea of factory nuclei and fractions in non-Party institutions and organizations is carried to its logical conclusion.

The Reorganization of the Party.

As we saw above, prior to 1905, Lenin stood for the narrow, exclusive organization of professional revolutionaries and was against the election of committeemen. Owing to the necessity for extreme secrecy, in those days the election of committeemen was impossible.[1] In 1905 conditions changed, and Lenin raised the question of the reorganization of the Party. He suggested a wider form of organization of the Party nucleus "less strictly defined" and "freer", but only in comparison with the previous "circles of professional revolutionaries." The Party was made democratic and placed on the elective basis. Nevertheless, the illegal apparatus of the party was preserved, and this enabled it to go back

  1. ↑ At the present time, even under illegal conditions in some places, it is possible to elect Party officials, for not everywhere where the Party is compelled to exist underground, is there such a political regime as existed in Russia under the Czar.

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