Wirtschaft als Leben

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Identifikator:: 1027869556

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-48255

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Gottl-Ottlilienfeld, Friedrich von http://d-nb.info/gnd/118809040

Title:: Wirtschaft als Leben

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXII, 763 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Freiheit vom Worte. Über das Verhältnis einer Allwirtschaftslehre zur Soziologie 1923

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION the thousands of proletarians (to whom Comrade Axelrod and Comrade Martynov refer) are con- cerned; they will only too often be entrusted to the professors, of whom Comrade Axelrod spoke, to the students about whom Comrade Liber and Comrade Popov were concerned, and the revolutionary youth, to whom Comrade Axelrod referred in his second speech. In a word, Comrade Martov’s formula will either remain a dead letter, an empty phrase, or be useful chiefly, and indeed almost exclusively, to “intellectuals who are thoroughly impregnated with the spirit of bourgeois individual- ism’ and who are not anxious to join an organiza- tion. In words, Martov’s formula protects the interests of the wide sections of the proletariat; in fact, however, it serves the interests of the bour- geois intellectuals, who fight shy of proletarian dis- cipline and organization. No one can deny that the intellectuals, as a special section in modern capitalist society, are, as a rule, characterized by individualism and by the fact that they are not amenable to discipline and organization (see the well-known articles of Kautsky on the subject of the intellectuals). Therein, in fact, this section of society distinguishes itself unfavorably from the proletariat; therein lies the explamation of the in- tellectuals’ weakness and vacillation from which the proletariat has so often suffered. This pecul- iarity of the intellectuals is indissolubly bound up with their conditions of life and their manner of earning a living, which in many respects approxi- 149

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