Lenin on organization

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Identifikator:: 1738032973

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116975

Document type:: Monograph

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:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION class. But it must be most closely connected with the working class, it must represent and champion the interests of the working class as a whole, and not those of any individual group or trade. It speaks and acts in the name of the whole of the working class. It is the vanguard of the working class, “the most progressive, the most class con- scious, and therefore the most revolutionary section of the working class.” For that reason the Com- munist Party must never drag at the tail of the movement, but must take the lead of it. It must lead the whole labor movement. To capture power, the Communist Party must win over to its side the majority of the working class. In order to be able to do this, in order to become the real expression of the interests of the working class, the Party must take an active part in all the conflicts between Labor and Capital, in the whole of the struggle of the working class and the poor peasantry against their exploiters and oppres- sors, and to lead this struggle. It must be most closely connected with all the organizations of the working class: trade unions, cooperative societies, factory committees, parliamentary and municipal fractions, working women’s organizations, educa- tional organizations, youth leagues, and Soviet and State organs if the proletariat is in power. In these organs and organizations the Communists must form fractions and through these fractions lead them. In “Infantile Diseases of Leftism” Lenin says: 29

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