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 58, page 2, col. 3) but they would prefer at first to deal with “general questions of organization” (for the real radical form of our statutes, which in spite of par. 1 is still centralistic, if carried out in the spirit of the new “Iskra” would certainly lead to autonomism, and Comrade Martov, of course, does not like to admit his tendency to autonomism in principle, even to himself). Their “fundamental” position on the question of organization therefore displays all the colors of the rainbow: innocent and pathetic declamations against autocracy and bu- reaucracy, blind subordination, and screws and wheels, predominate—declamations so innocent that it is difficult to distinguish what is really funda- mental in them and what is really concerned with co-option. But the deeper we go into the forest, the thicker the trees become. Attempts to analyze and define exactly the so much detested “bureau- cratism” inevitably leads to autonomism, to the justification of backwardness, to “khvostism,” to Girondist phrasemongering. Finally, the only, real- ly definite principle in practice, and therefore the one that stands out most clearly (for practice al- ways precedes theory) is the principle of anarchism. Ridicule of discipline — autonomism — anarchism, that is the ladder upon which opportunism on ques- tions of organization ascends and descends, leaping from step to step and dexterously avoiding a defi- nite formulation of its principles.* The same grada- * Those who remember the discussion on par. 1 of the statutes will now clearly see that the error committed by 187

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