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 and at the same time to defend disorganization and confusion under cover of the word Party, is simply to utter meaningless phrases. “Qur formulation,” says Comrade Martov, *“ex- presses the endeavor to create a series of organiza- tions between the organizations of revolutionaries and the masses.” Nothing of the kind! This (necessary) endeavor, is not expressed by Martov’s formulation, because it gives no stimulus to organ- ization; it does not demand organization and fails to distinguish the organized from the unorganized. It provides only a name*, and in this respect we must recall the words of Comrade Axelrod: “We cannot by decrees forbid them (circles, the revolu- tionary youth, etc.) or individuals calling them- selves Social Democrats (a sacred truth!) and even regarding themselves as part of the Party”... That is absolutely untrue! We cannot, and there is no need to, forbid anybody calling himself a Social Democrat, for directly that word expresses only a * At the League Congress Comrade Martov adduced one more argument in favor of his draft, an argument only calcu- lated to evoke laughter. He said: “We could point out that Lenin's formula, if taken literally, would exclude the agents of the Central Committee from the Party, for they do not form an organization.” This argument was indeed received with laughter at the Congress, as the protocol records, Com- rade Martov assumed that the “difficulty” he mentioned is solved only by the fact that the agents of the Central Com- mittee belong to the “organization of the Central Committee.” But that is not the question. The question is that by the example he cited, Comrade Martov plainly demonstrated his complete failure to understand the idea of par. 1 and betrayed his pedantic and indeed ludicrous method of criticism. For- 153

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