Lenin on organization

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Identifikator:: 1738032973

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116975

Document type:: Monograph

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:: V. Party mebership (From "One step forward, two steps back", written towards the beginning of 1904)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION accompanied by anarchistic actions which must lead to a split in the Party. Such in fact was the case in the present instance. The comparatively slight difference of opinion over par. 1 has assumed tremendous importance simply because it serves as the starting point for oppor- tunist profundity and anarchist phrase-mongering on the part of the minority (especially as expressed at the league (18) congress and in the pages of the new “Iskra”). It was this difference which laid the basis for the coalition of the “Iskra’ minor- ity and the anti-Iskrists and for that marsh which finally assumed definite shape during the elections and without an understanding of which it is impos- sible to grasp the chief and fundamental differences which are over the question of the composition of the centres. The small error of Martov and Axel- rod in regard to par. 1 was a little crack in our vessel (as I expressed myself at the League Con- gress). The vessel might have been bound together with a tight noose (and not with a death noose, as Martov, who during the League Congress was in a state bordering on hysteria, understood me to have said). All our efforts might have been directed towards making the crack wider and breaking the vessel, and, thanks to the boycott and similar anar- chist actions on the part of the zealous Martovites, this was what actually happened. The difference over par. 1 played no small part in the question of the centres, and the defeat of Martov on this latter point led him to engage in “a struggle over 129

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