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 existence of large numbers of representatives of the radical intellectuals in the ranks of our Marxists and Social Democrats have made, and still make, the opportunism to which their psychology gives rise inevitable in the most varied spheres and in the most varied forms. We fought opportunism on the fundamental questions of our philosophy and on the question of the program; and the utter diverg- ence of aims led inevitably to an irrevocable split between the Social Democrats and the liberals who have spoilt our legal Marxism. We fought opportun- ism on questions of tactics; and our divergence from Corms, Krichevsky and Akimov on these less important questions was, of course, only temporary and did not lead to the formation of different Parties. We must now fight the opportunism of Martov and Axelrod on questions of organization; they are of course, still less fundamental than the questions of program or tactics, but they at present occupy the forefront of our Party life. When we speak of fighting opportunism we must not lose sight of the characteristic features of mod- ference between Comrades Martynov and Akimov on the one hand, and Comrades von Vollmar and von Elm, or Jaures and Millerand, on the other, is very great. Similarly there can be no doubt as to the identity of the fundamental division on the question of organization, in spite of the tremendous dif- ference of conditions prevailing in the politically unfranchised and the politically free countries. It is highly characteristic that the editors of the new “Iskra,” who are such sticklers for principle, while they dealt briefly with the dispute between Kautsky and Heine (No, 64) timorously avoided the question of the fundamental tendencies of every kind of opportunism and every kind of orthodoxy on the question of organization. 18K

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