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LENIN ON ORGANIZATION

narrow compared with the wide elemental basis of the movement, it is too wrapt in the wretched theory of the "economic struggle against the masters and the government." Today, however, not only political agitators but also Social Democratic agitators must "go among all classes oi the population[1]. Probably no practitioner will deny that in his organization there are thousands of detailed functions which the Social Democrats could distribute among representatives of the most varying classes. Inadequate specialization is one of the greatest defects of our technique, as B-v. so bitterly and so justly complains. The more the various "operations" of the general work are divided up, the more easy will it be to find persons capable of fulfilling them (who in most cases would be absolutely unsuitable for professional revolutionaries); it will be all the harder for the police to "catch" these ‘"detail workers," and it will be all the harder to turn the arrest of a single person on some trifling charge into a "case" making worth while the sums which are spent by the government on the "Okhrana"[2]. As to the number of persons who are ready to lend us

  1. ↑ For example, an undoubted increase of the democratic spirit is recently to be observed among military circles, which is in part due to the increasing cases of street engagements, with such "enemies" as workers and students. As soon as the forces at our disposal permit, we must devote the most serious attention to propaganda and agitation among soldiers and officers with the object of creating Party "military organizations."
  2. ↑ The secret political police—Trans.

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