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 “Iskra” (20) by Comrade Axelrod in order to acquaint the reading public with the new views on organization of the new editors. At the very first session of the congress at which the question of par. 1 was discussed, I noticed that our opponents wanted to make use of this very cheap weapon and in my speech I therefore uttered the following warning: “It must not be thought that the Party organizations should consist solely of professional revolutionaries. We need organizations of all kinds, shapes and forms, beginning with very narrow and conspiratorial organizations and ending with ex- tremely wide, free and loose organizations.” This was such an obvious, self-evident truth that I thought it superflous to dwell upon it. But at the present time, when in so many respects we have been dragged back, it is necessary ‘“to repeat the old.” By way of such a repetition I will cite some extracts from “What is to be Done?” and “A Letter to a Comrade”: “...A body of leaders, like Alekseev and Myshkin, Khalturin and Zhelyabov (21) are capable of polit- ical tasks in the truest and most practical sense of the word; they are so capable because their fiery preaching meets with the response of the sponta- neuosly awakened masses and because their bub- bling energy is caught up and supported by the energy of a revolutionary class.” In fact in order to become a Social Democratic party the support of a class must be secured. It is not that the Party must envelop the conspiratorial organization, as 140

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