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:: XII. The party cleansing (From "Pravda", no. 210, September 21, 1921)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION labor and improvements in the sense of combatting the influence of the petty bourgeois and petty bour- geois anarchist instincts which are so destructive both to the proletariat and to the Party. In order to effect this improvement, we must cleanse the Party of elements who have alienated themselves from the masses (not to speak, of course, of ele- ments who are disgracing the Party in the eyes of the masses). We shall not, of course, always sub- mit to the advice of the masses, for the state of mind of the masses—especially at times of excep- tional fatigue and exhaustion due to excessive hard- ships and sufferings—is not always of the most advanced order. But as far as concerns a negative estimate of those who have “adhered” themselves to the Party, who have become “commissarized” and “bureaucratized,” the advice of the non-Party proletarian masses, and often the non-Party peas- ant masses, is extremely valuable. The toiling masses have an extremely acute flair for the differ- ence between honest and sincere Communists and such as arouse disgust in people who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, who have no privileges and “no pull with the authorities.” It is a great thing in cleansing the Party to pay heed to the advice of the non-Party toilers. It will be productive of valuable results. It will make the Party a still stronger vanguard of the class than formerly, it will make it a vanguard which will be more closely connected with the class and more 299

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