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 tween the formula of Comrade Martov and the undeniable postulates of scientific Socialism which he so unhappily quoted. “Our Party is the con- scious expression of an unconscious process.” That is true; and for that very reason it is wrong to insist that “every striker” should be allowed to call himself a member of the Party; for even if “every striker” were not merely a spontaneous and ele- mental expression of a powerful class instinct and of a class struggle which must inevitably lead to a social revolution, but a conscious expression of that process—then a general strike would not be an anarchist phrase, our Party would immediately embrace the whole working class and consequently would immediately put an end to bourgeois society ...In order in actual fact to be a medium of con- scious expression, the Party must be able to produce such organizational relations as will secure a given level of consciousness and systematically raise that That is true only in cases where it becomes necessary to remove persons from the Party (and even then it is only half true, for a Party organization removes by means of a vote and not by means of a boycott). But it is absolutely untrue with regard to those, far more frequent, cases when to remove would be foolish, and all that is needed is to con- trol. To secure control the Central Committee might under certain circumstances admit an organization which is not altogether reliable, but very energetic, in order to test it, or to attempt to direct it along the right path, or, through the medium of control, to paralyze its partial deviations, etc. To admit an organization under such circumstances is not dan- gerous, provided in general that the right of “inscribing one- self” in the Party is not allowed. Admission under such circumstances may often be useful in securing an open, 158

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