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:: IV. General type of organization (From "A letter to a comrade on our problems of organization", September, 1902)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION sible under conspiratorial conditions: one has only to desire it and it is always, and will always, be possible to hand over (or transmit) reports and contacts as long as we have committees, a C. C. and a C. O. We have arrived at a very important principle of all Party organization and all Party activity: while, as far as the intellectual and practical leadership of the movement and the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat is concerned, the greatest possible decentralization is required, as far as keeping the Party centre (and therefore the Party as a whole), informed regarding the movement and as far as responsibility to the Party are concerned, the great- est possible decentralize is required. The leader- ship of the movement should be entrusted to the smallest possible number of uniform groups of professional revolutionaries who have been trained in the school of experience. The greatest possible number of diverse and heterogeneous groups of every section of the proletariat (and other classes of the population) should take part in the move- ment. The Party centre must always have before it not only exact information regarding the activities of each of the groups, but also the fullest possible facts regarding its composition. The leadership of the movement must be centralized. We must also, (and for that very reason, for without infor- mation we cannot have decentralization) as far as possible, decentralization responsibility to the Party on the part of every individual member and every 119

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