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 wavering intellectuals the difference between the exploiting side of the factory (a discipline based on mortal fear of starvation) and its organizing side (a discipline based upon common labor united by the conditions of highly developed technical production). Discipline and organization, which come so hard to the bourgeois intellectual, are, thanks to the factory “school,” acquired very easily by the proletariat. Mortal fear of this school and utter failure to comprehend its organizing value are characteristic of the habits of thought which reflect petty-bourgeois conditions of existence, and which give rise to the species of anarchism which the German Social Democrats call “Edelanarchismus,” i. e., the anarchism of the “well-born” person— noble anarchism. Noble anarchism is specially characteristic of the Russian nihilist. To him the Party organization appears to be a monstrous “fac- tory,” the subordination of the part to the whole and of the minority to the majority he regards as “enslavement” (see Axelrod’s article) ; the division of labor under the guidance of the centre wrings from him a tragi-comic outcry against the trans- formation of men into “wheels and bolts” (and what is to him particularly monstrous is the trans- formation of editors into contributors) ; reference to the Party statutes on organization he meets with 8 contemptuous grimace and a deprecatory remark (addressed to “the formalists’”) to the effect that perhaps statutes are altogether unnecessary. It is almost unbelievable, but nevertheless a fact, 187

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