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:: VIII. On the road (From the "Social democrat", no. 2, Feb. 19, 1909)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION point in the development of the Russian labor move- ment since the triumph of the counter-revolu- tion... The fundamental cause of the crisis in the Party is set forth in the introduction to the resolution on organization. The cause was that the Party was being cleansed of wavering intellectual and petty- bourgeois elements, who, as a rule, had joined the labor movement in the hope of the early triumph of the bourgeois democratic revolu- tion, and who were too weak to withstand the period of reaction. Their weakness betrayed itself in the realm of theory (‘departure from revolution- ary Marxism”: the resolution on Current Affairs), the realm of tactics (‘‘the cutting down of slogans’) and in the realm of Party organizational policy. The class-conscious workers resisted this vacillation; they energetically attacked the liquidators, and began to take the conduct and control of affairs of the Party into their own hands. If this firm kernel in our Party was unable immediately to gain the mastery over the elements of disintegration who caused the crisis, it was not only because the task was too great and difficult to be accomplished amidst the triumph of counter-revolution, but also because of a certain indifference towards the Party on the part of workers who were revolutionary in spirit, but who did not possess a sufficient degree of Socialist consciousness. It is in fact to the class-conscious workers of Russia that the decisions 200

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