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 carries on every kind of work, does not devote himself to certain definite functions, is not respon- sible for some special duty, never carries a well- considered and well-prepared piece of work to an end, and spends an enormous amount of time and energy in simply running to and fro—and, on the other hand, embrace a great mass of student and workers’ circles, half of which are altogether un- known to the committee, and the other half are huge unspecialized, accumulating no professional experience, nor making use of the experience of others, and, like the committee itself, engaged in endless conferences about everything in general, in elections and in the drawing up of statutes. In order that the centre may be able to work properly, the local committees must be re-formed; they must become specialized and ‘business-like’ organiza- tions which will be capable of achieving real “im- provements” in some one or other practical sphere. In order that the centre should do more than dis- cuss, argue and wrangle (as has been the case hitherto) but really conduct the orchestra, it is necessary that it should know who is playing which fiddle and where; who has learnt, or is learning to play a certain instrument, and how and where; who is playing a false note (that is, when the music happens to go wrong) and where and why, and who must be transferred, and where to in order that the discord be corrected, etc. Let it be said openly, at the present moment we either know nothing about the real internal work of a given 191

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