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Does not everybody know that there is a need for popular literature for intellectuals too? And is not such literature in fact being written? Imagine the writer of an article on the organization of university or high school students speaking as though it were a great discovery, of the need for organizing the "average student." A man who wrote such stuff would be laughed at, and rightly so. Give us, he will be told, your ideas on organization, if you have any, and we ourselves will decide who is "average," who higher and who lower. If you have any idea on organization of your own all your agonizing over the ‘"masses" and the "average man" will be simply tedious. Remember that the questions of "politics" and "organization" are themselves so serious that they must only be spoken of seriously. We can, and we must, prepare the workers (and the university and high school students too) so as to be able to talk to them about these questions, but once you have started talking about them don't take refuge behind the "average man" and the "masses" and don't attempt to put us off with witticisms and phrases^[1].