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:: X. A fundamental reason for the success of the Bolsheviks (From the "Infantile sickness of leftism", written 1920)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION still left on this earth; and petty industry daily, hourly, spontaneously and in mass proportion gives birth to capitalism and creates bourgeois stability. That is why the dictatorship of the proletariat is essential; that is why victory over the bourgeoisie is impossible without a long obstinate and desparate war for life or death—a war demanding steadfast- ness, discipline, firmness and singleness of will. I repeat that the experience of the triumphant dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia has clearly demonstrated to all who are unable to think, or to whom it has not occurred to think, on this subject that unconditional centralization and strict disci- pline on the part of the proletariat compromise one of the fundamental conditions of victory over the bourgeoisie. This fact is often spoken about, but far too little consideration is given to what its implications are and under what conditions it becomes possible. Would it not be a good thing if the greetings which are addressed to the Soviet Government and to the Bolsheviks were a little more frequently accompa- nied by a serious analysis of the causes why the Bolsheviks were able to create the discipline which is so necessary to the revolutionary proletariat? As a tendency in political thought and as the policy of a political Party, Bolshevism has existed since 1903. Only the history of Bolshevism during the whole period of its existence can satisfactorily explain why it was able under the most difficult 210)

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