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 of the fittest.” The “natural election” exercised by complete publicity, election and universal control guarantees that in the long run every active mem- ber will be engaged in his “speciality,” will occupy himself with matters best suited to his powers and capacities, and that he will suffer in his own person all the consequences of his blunders, and will reveal to all whether he is capable of admitting his blun- ders and avoiding them in the future. Just try to fit this picture into the framework of our autocracy! Is it thinkable in our country that everybody “who accepts the principles of the Party program and supports the Party according to his ability” should control every action of the revolutionary conspirators, and that everybody should elect persons among the latter to given posts, —Wwhen every revolutionary is obliged in the inter- ests of the cause to conceal from nine out of ten of “the electors” who he really is? One has only to reflect ever go little upon the real meaning of the fine-sounding phrases uttered by the ‘“Rabochie Delo” in order to realize that “broad democracy” in a Party organization which exists under the eye of the gendarmes is a foolish and dangerous game. A foolish game because, as a matter of fact, no revolutionary organization has ever, or can ever, base itself on broad democracy, however much it may desire to! A dangerous game, because any attempt to introduce “the broad democratic prin- ciple” would merely assist the police in affecting widespread arrests, would perpetuate our pre- 104

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