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 Of course not. I thereby express a perfectly clear and definiite wish, a demand, that the Party, as the advanced section of a class, should as far as possible, be something organized, that the Party should adopt into its ranks such elements as are amenable to at least a minimum of organization. My opponent, on the contrary, mixes up in the Party both organized and unorganized elements, elements amenable to leadership and elements not amenable to leadership, advanced elements and incorrigibly backward elements (corrigibly back- ward elements should be allowed in the Party). Such confusion is indeed dangerous. Comrade Axel- rod further refers to the “strictly conspiratorial and centralized organizations of the past” (“Land and Freedom” and ‘Popular Freedom”): around them, he says, “there were grouped a number of persons who did not belong to the organization, but who helped it in one way or another and were regarded as members of the Party... This principle should be applied with still greater strictness in a Social Democratic organization.” Here, we come to one the wide sense of the word) and consists of a number of organizations (in the narrow sense of the word). Similarly, the Party is an organization, should be an organization, (in the wide sense of the word); but at the same time it should consist of a number of different organizations (in the narrow sense of the word). Therefore, when Comrade Axelrod spoke of differentiating the conceptions Party and Organization, he firstly overlooked the difference between the wide and narrow senses of the word, and, secondly, he entirely failed to observe that he himself had hopelessly mixed up the organized and unorganized elements into one heap. 132

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