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:: I. Where to begin ? (From "Where to begin ?," "Iskra" no. 4, May, 1901)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION to which that primary and most essential branch of our militant activities has been firmly established. Moreover, the paper must be an all-Russian paper. As long as we are unable to bring united influence to bear on the population and on the government with the aid of the printed word, it is utopian to think that we shall be able unitedly to exert other more complex and difficult, but more effective forms of influence. Our movement, intellectually as well as practically (organizationally), suffers most of all from its dispersion, from the fact that the vast majority of Social Democrats are immersed in local work, which narrows their point of view, limits their activities and affects their conspiratorial skill and training. It is to this dispersedness that we must ascribe the vacillation and hesitation of which I spoke above. The first step towards removing this defect and transforming several local movements into a united national (Russian) movement is the creation of a national newspaper. Finally, it is a political paper we need. Without a political organ, a movement deserving to be called a political move- ment is impossible in modern Europe. Without such a paper we shall be absolutely unable to fulfill our task, namely, to concentrate all the elements of political unrest and discontent and with them enrich the revolutionary movement of the prole- tariat. The first step we have already accomplished; we have aroused in the working class a passion for “economic,” factory, denunciation. We have now to make the second step: to arouse in every to any 50

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