Lenin on organization

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Identifikator:: 1738032973

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116975

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Author:: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹič http://d-nb.info/gnd/118640402

Title:: Lenin on organization

Place of publication:: Chicago

Publisher:: Daily Worker Pub. Co

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 235 pages

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. The amateurishness of the economists and an organization of revolutionaries (From "What is to be done" - February, 1902)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION It might be objected that such a powerful and strictly secret organization, concentrating all the threads of conspiratorial activity in its hands,—an organization of necessity centralized, may too easily launch into a premature attack, may thoughtlessly bring the movement into action sooner than the growth of political discontent, the degree of unrest and hatred among the working class, etc., warrant. To this we reply: abstractly speaking, of course, it cannot be denied that a fighting organization might thoughtlessly launch into an unplanned fight, which might end in a defeat which under different circum- stances might not be inevitable. But in such a question we cannot confine ourselves to abstract consideration, since every engagement involves the abstract possibility of defeat; and there is no way of lessening the chance of defeat except by organ- ized preparation for the fight. If, however, we consider the question from the point of view of the concrete conditions prevailing in modern Russia, we are forced to the definite conclusion that a strong revolutionary organization is absolutely essential, just in order to lend the movement stability and to shield it from the possibility of thoughtless attacks. Because such an organiza- tion is lacking, and because of the rapid elemental growth of the revolutionary movement, we now observe two opposite extremes (which, as is fitting, “meet”): at one time we have an absolutely bank- rupt “provocatory terrorism” endeavoring “in an organization which is developing and strengthening 100

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