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 What I want here to draw attention to is the un- mistakeable tendency to defend autonomism as against centralism which is a fundamental feature of opportunism in question of organization. Almost the only attempt which has been made to analyze the conception of bureaucracy is the con- trast drawn by the new “Iskra” (No. 53) between “the formal democratic principle” (heavy type by the author) and “the formal bureaucratic principle.” This contrast (which unfortunately is as little developed and explained as the reference to the non- Iskrists) contains a germ of truth. Bureaucracy versus democracy means centralism versus auto- nomism; it is the organization principle of revolu- tionary Social Democracy as against the organiza- tion principle of the Social Democratic opportunists. The latter endeavors to proceed from the bottom upwards, and therefore, wherever possible, insists upon autonomism and “democracy” and even (in the case of the over-zealous) goes to the extent of anarchism. The former strives to proceed from the top downwards, insisting on the extension of the rights and authority of the centre over the parts. During the epoch of disintegration and of the circles, the peak from which revolutionary Social Democ- racy could attempt to proceed in an organized fashion had to be one of the circles—the most tributes the forces of the Party” (par. 6). Can forces be distributed if members are not transferred from one commit- tee to another? One is almost ashamed to dwell on these elementary truths. 174

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