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 grounded in principle, and the most Social Demo- cratic intellectual elements have remained true to the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. The exodus from the Party is a cleansing of the Party, the departure of its least stable and least reliable friends, the “hangers-on” (Mitldufer), who asso- ciated themselves temporarily with the proletariat and who were recruited from the petty bourgeoisie or from the ‘“de-classed,” i. e. from the people who have been forced out of some definite class sphere. This view of the principles of Party organization naturally leads to the line of organizational policy which was adopted by the Conference. The con- solidation of the illegal Party organizations, the creation of Party nuclei in every sphere of action, the formation above all of “purely Party, even if numerically small, workers’ committees in every industrial concern,” the concentration of the con- trol of functions in the hands of leaders of the Social Democratic movement who have originated from the workers themselves—such are the tasks of the moment. It is the duty, of course, of these nuclei and committees to make use of the semi- legal organizations and wherever possible too, of the legal organizations, in order to maintain “close contact with the masses,” and in order so to con- duct the work that the Social Democrats will react to every demand made by the masses. Every nu- cleus and every Party workers’ committee must be “a base supporting the agitational, propaganda and organizing work among the masses,” i. e. they must 202

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