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:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION which (or almost the whole) works under the con- trol and guidance of the Party organization, but which does not as a whole belong to the Party.” This imposes still greater demands upon Party members: Only those who directly belong to one of the Party organizations and work in it actively can be regarded as Party members. In this man- ner Lenin laid a firm foundation to the Party of “professional revolutionaries” and rendered difficult the penetration of petty-bourgeois elements. Thanks to this the Bolshevik Party was saved from being swamped by petty-bourgeois intellectuals, as was the fate of the Mensheviks, and was helped to re- main true to its program and tactics in the most difficult years of the reaction. After the Second Congress the Mensheviks re- vealed similar opportunism on the questions of cen- tralism, local autonomy for branches and democ- racy. The Bolsheviks advocated centralism, the absolute subordination of the local organizations to the leading centre, the appointment of commit- teemen, and cooption (while the reaction raged). On these questions the Mensheviks followed the economists. They were opposed to the absolute sub- ordination of local organization to the leading cen- ter, they were opposed to strict Party discipline and in favor of wide autonomy for local organization. In spite of the weakness of the local organization, in spite of the raging Czarist reaction, and the strict Secrecy in which the Party organizations had to be maintained, the Mensheviks insisted upon dem- 13

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