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 “factory formalism!” We have here in fact a revival of the phraseology of the circles addressed to the Party by the editorial board, who feel that they represent not a Party organization but a remnant of a former circle. The inner falsity of this posi- tion must inevitably lead to anarchist profundity of thought which elevates the disintegration which they phrasically declare to have already outlived to the level of a principle of Social Democratic or- ganization. No hierarchy of lower and upper Party organizations is required—to the noble anarchist such a hierarchy is a bureaucratic invention (see Axelrod’s article), no subordination of the part to the whole, no “formal democratic” definition of what are Party ways of “agreeing” or disagreeing— let us only dignify the old slipshod methods of the circles with phrases about the so-called “true Social Democratic” methods of organization. Here is where the proletarian who has passed through the “school” of the factory can and must teach a lesson to the anarchist individualist. The class conscious worker long ago came out of his swaddling clothes when he learned to fight shy of the intellectual as such. The class-conscious worker knows how to value the richer store of knowledge, that wider political outlook which he finds among the Social Democratic intellectuals. But as a real Party is developed the class conscious worker must learn to distinguish between the psychology of the fighter in the proletarian army from the psychology of the bourgeois intellectual who makes a brave 171

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