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 tion.” This thesis is extremely characteristic, for it betrays, if one may say so, for whom Martov’s formula is required and whose purpose it will in fact serve: intellectuals and individuals, or working class groups and the working class masses. The fact is that two interpretations of Martov’s formula, are possible: 1) that everybody who lends the Party regular personal support under the guidance of one of its organizations may “declare himself” (in Comrade Martov’s own phrase) a member of the Party; and 2) that every organization of the Party may recognize as a member of the Party everybody who lends it regular personal support under its guidance. Only the first interpretation in fact, and it alone, gives “every striker” the right of calling himself a Party member, and that is why it immediately won the heart of men like Liber (22), Akimov and Martynov. But this interpretation is obviously nothing but an empty phrase, since it would embrace the whole working class and the difficulty between Party and class would be ef- faced; we can only speak “symbolically” of control and guidance over “every striker.” That is why Comrade Martov in his second speech at once made for the second interpretation (although, it should be said in parenthesis, it was directly rejected by the congress when it refused to adopt the resolution of Kostich), according to which the committee will distribute functions and supervise their execution. Such a distribution of functions, will, of course, never take place as far as the mass of the workers, 148

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