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 their true nature by demanding that the program (for the purpose of Party “membership”) should also be recognized only Platonically, that is that the simple recognition of its “fundamental postu- lates” should be required. “From the point of view of Comrade Martov,” said Comrade Pavlovich, “the proposal of Comrade Akimov is absolutely logical.” Unfortunately, the protocol does not state how many votes were given for this proposal of Akimov. In all likelihood, not less than seven (five Bundists, Akimov and Broucker). As a matter of fact, when seven of the delegates abandoned the congress the “compact majority” (consisting of the anti-Iskrists, the “centre” and the Martovists) which had begun to form itself around par. 1 of the statutes was transformed into a compact minority! As a matter of fact, it was the departure of the seven delegates which caused the loss of the motion to reconfirm the old editorial board—that so-called outrageous breach of “continuity of policy” in the editorship of “Iskra.” The seven consisted of the Bundists, Akimov and Broucker, that is, the identical seven delegates who voted against the motives for regard- ing “Iskra” as the central Party organ and the for me. Without the aid of the opportunists Comrade Martov would never have carried his opportunist formula through. (At the League Congress Comrade Martov attempted very unsuccessfully to deny this indisputable fact by confining himself to the votes of the Bundists and forgetting Comrade Akimov and his friends—or, rather remembering them only when it might count against me—as for instance, Comrade Broucker’s agreement with me). 160

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