Lenin on organization

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Identifikator:: 1689561912

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-101785

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Below, Georg von http://d-nb.info/gnd/118658085

Title:: Probleme der Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Edition:: 2., photomechanisch gedr. und durch ein ausführliches Vorw. erg. Aufl

Place of publication:: Tübingen

Publisher:: Mohr

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XXIV, 710 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Das kurze Leben einer viel genannten Theorie über die Lehre vom Ureigentum

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION connection with the discussion on organization. “Khvostism” in questions of organization follows naturally and inevitably from the psychology of the anarchist individualist, when he attempts to elevate his (perhaps, at first purely casual) anarchist ten- dencies to a system of ideas, to particular differ- ences of opinion on question of principle. We saw the beginning of this anarchism at the League Con- gress, and in “Iskra” we observe the attempt to elevate it to a system of ideas. These attempts strikingly bear out the opinion already expressed at the Party congress regarding the difference in the point of view of a bourgeois intellectual who has joined the Party and a proletarian who is con- scious of his class interests. For instance, “Prac- titioner,” who writes in the “Iskra,” and with whose profundity we are already familiar, accuses me of conceiving the Party “as a huge factory” headed by a director in the shape of the Central Committee. “Practitioner” does not even suspect that the “ter- rible word” he here employs at once betrays the psychology of a bourgeois intellectual who is ac- quainted neither with the practice nor the theory of proletarian organization. To some people a factory is simply a bugbear, where ag it is, in fact, that highest form of capitalist cooperation which has united and disciplined the proletariat, taught it to organize, and placed it at the head of all sections of the toiling and exploited population. It is Marxism, the ideology of the proletariat educated by capitalism, who has taught and still teaches the 166

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