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 having answered that question, Comrade Axelrod has advanced only half his argument. In fact, one or the other. Either the organized Social Democrats regard the professor as a Social Democrat—in which case why should he not be included in one or other of the Social Democratic organizations? Only by his being thus included will the “declara- tion” of the professor correspond with the truth and not be an empty phrase (as many professorial decla- rations are) or the organized Social Democrats do not recognize the professor as a Social Democrat in which case it would be purposeless and dangerous to allow him the right of bearing the honorable and responsible name of Party member. The question therefore amounts either to the consistent applica- tion of the principle of organization, or to the apo- thesis of confusion and anarchy. Shall we con- struct the Party around the already formed and consolidated kernel of Social Democrats, such as was created, for instance, by the Party congress, and which must extend and multiply the Party organizations, or are we to content ourselves with the consoling phrase that all who lend assistance are members of the Party? “If we accept Lenin’s formula,” Comrade Axelrod continued, “we shall be throwing overboard a number of persons, who, although they cannot be directly adopted into the organization, are nevertheless Party members.” Comrade Axelrod is himself only too obviously guilty of the confusion of ideas of which he accused me; he already takes it for granted that all who 134

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