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 itself, but which is still nearer to its beginning than to its end, to call forth artificially the symptoms of its end” (V. Zasulitch (11) in “Zarya” (12), No. 2-3, p. 353). The example of the “Rabochie Delo” shows that there are already Social Democrats who are wavering between the two extremes. This phenomenon is by no means surprising, among other reasons because the ‘economic struggle against the masters and the government” can never satisfy the revolutionary; somewhere or other the two opposing extremes will always be cropping up. Only a centralized fighting organization, steadfastly pursuing a Social Democratic policy, and, so to speak, satisfying every revolutionary instinct and endeavor, can prevent the movement from launch- ing into light-minded campaigns and arm it for campaigns which are likely to end in victory. It will further be objected that the views we have here set forth are contrary to ‘the principle of democracy.” Just as the former accusation was of specifically Russian origin, so this accusation bears a specifically foreign character. Only a foreign organization (the “Union” of Russian So- cial Democrats) could give the following instruc- tions to the editors of its paper: “Organizational principle. In order to achieve the successful development and unity of Social Democracy it is necessary to emphasize, to develop, and to fight for the broad democratic principle within the Party organization; this is all the more essential because of the anti-demo- 101

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