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

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION say by history, if it were not too high-sounding a phrase. Let us examine the arguments with the help of an analysis of the discussion at the congress. The first speech, that of Comrade Egorov, is interesting only because his attitude is characteristic of many of the delegates, who by no means found it easy to orient themselves in a really new and fairly complex and detailed question. The second speech, that of Comrade Axelrod, already treats the ques- tion as one of principle. It was the first speech on a question of principle—in fact, the first speech at all—made by Comrade Axelrod. One cannot say that his “professor” debut was a great successor. “I think,” said Comrade Axelrod, “that we ought to draw a distinction between the conceptions Party and Organization. The two conceptions are being here mixed. Such a confusion is dangerous.” That was the first argument against my draft. Let us examine it. When I say that the Party should be a sum (and not a simple arithmetic sum, but a complex) of organizations, does that mean that I “mix’’ the conceptions Party and Organization? * * The word “organization” is usually employed in two senses, a wide sense and a narrow sense. In the narrow sense it implies an individual cell of the human community, however elementary its forms may be. In the wider sense it implies the sum of such cells fused into a whole. For in- stance, fleet, army, state at one and the same time represent a sum of organizations (in the narrow sense of the word) and a species of the social organization (in the wide sense of the word). The department for education is an organization (in 121

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