LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
THE PARTY CLEANSING.
(From “Pravda,” No. 210, September 21, 1921).
The Party cleansing has apparently developed
into a serious and extremely important piece of
work.
In certain localities those who are undertaking
the cleansing of the Party are relying mainly on the
experience and the advice of non-Party workers,
guiding themselves by that advice and consulting
the representatives of the non-Party proletarian
masses. That is very valuable, and important fact.
If we really succeed in cleansing the Party from
top to bottom in this fashion, “without respect for
persons,” the conquest of the revolution will indeed
be great.
For the conquests of the revolution cannot now
change in character with the transition from the
military front to the economic front, with the tran-
sition to the new economic policy and to conditions
which demand first and foremost increased produc-~
tivity of labor and of greater labor discipline. At
such a time the main conquests of the revolution
are internal improvements, which in themselves are
not striking and not immediately apparent: ime
provement of the conditions and the product of
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