Lenin on organization

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Identifikator:: 1738032973

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116975

Document type:: Monograph

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 knows that this antagonism to a great extent explains the division of modern Social Democracy into revolutionary (orthodox) and opportunist (revisionism, ministerialism, reformism), which in Russia too has reached full expression during the last ten years of the history of our movement. Everybody knows, too, that the proletarian tenden- cies in the movement are expressed by orthodox Social Democracy, and the democratic-intellectual tendencies by opportunist Social Democracy. . . Another reference of Comrade Axelrod—to the “Jacobins” is still more instructive. Comrade Axel- rod must certainly know that the division of con- temporary Social Democracy into revolutionary and opportunist gave rise long ago, and not in Russia alone, to “the historical analogy with the epoch of the great French Revolution.” Comrade Axelrod must certainly know that the Girondists of the modern Social Democratic movement frequently resort to terms like “Jacobinism” and “Blanquism” to describe their opponents. Let us not imitate Comrade Axelrod in his fear of the truth; let us examine the protocols of our congress and see whether we cannot find material in them for analyz- ing and testing the tendencies and analogies we are considering. First example. The dispute on the program at the Party congress. Comrade Akimov (in “full agreement” with Comrade Martov) declared: “The paragraph on the conquest of political power (the dictatorship of the proletariat), in comparison with 162

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