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 GRGANIZATION participant in the work and of every circle belonging to, or associating itself with, the Party. This de- centralization is an essential condition of revolu- tionary centralization and an essential corrective to it. When centralization has been fully estab- lished and we have a C. 0. and a C. C., it will be possible for every group, however small, to commu- nicate with them—and not only will it be able to communicate with them, but regularity of commu- nication will be established by years of experience —and the possibility of grievous consequences resulting from the chance unfortunate composition of a local committee will be removed. Now, when Wwe are seriously endeavoring to effect real unity in the Party and to create a real leading centre, we must particularly bear in mind that the centre will be impotent if we do not introduce the maximum of decentralization both as far as responsibility to the centre and keeping it informed of all the wheels and inner wheels of the Party machine are con- cerned. This decentralization is only the reverse side of the division of labor which is generally recog- nized to be one of the most urgent practical needs of our movement. The official recognition of a given organization as the leading organization, the setting up of a formal C. C. is not enough to make our movement a real united movement, or to create a strong fighting Party if the Party centre is cut off from direct practical work by the local committees of the old type, i. e. by such as are, on the one hand, made up of a great number of persons each of which 120

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