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 vailing amateurishness, and divert the active work- ers from the serious and essential duty of making themselves professional revolutionaries to the task of drawing up detailed “paper” statutes on systems of election. Only abroad, where we often find people assembled who are unable to find a live interest for themselves, can this “game of democ- racy” develop, especially among small groups. In order to demonstrate to the reader all the objections to the noble “principle” of democracy advocated by ‘“Rabochie Delo” for the revolutionary movement, we shall again quote the evidence of a witness. The witness, E. Serebyakov, editor of the London paper; “Nakanune” (13), has a great weak- ness for the “Rabochie Delo” and a great hatred for Plekhanov (14) and his followers. In its article dealing with the break-up of the foreign “Union of Russian Social Democrats,” “Nakanune” took up the cause of the “Rabochie Delo” and poured a shower of insults over the devoted head of Ple- khanov. All the more valuable is this witness therefore on the question under consideration. In No. 7 of the “Nakanune” (July, 1899), in an article entitled “The Manifesto of the Groups for the Self- Emancipation of the Workers,” E. Serebyakov talks of the “indecency” of raising questions of “self- deception,” of supremacy, of the so-called areopagus in a serious revolutionary movement. He writes: “Myshkin (15), Rogachev, Zhelyabov, Mikhai- loy, Perovskaya, Figner and others, never re- garded themselves as leaders and were never 105

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