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:: III. The amateurishness of the economists and an organization of revolutionaries (From "What is to be done" - February, 1902)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION of blunders (such as the manifesto to society de- scribing the evil deeds of the Socialists, and the exiling of workers from the capitals to the provin- cial industrial centres), rapidly adapted itself to the new conditions of warfare and managed to place its armies of provocateurs, spies and gendarmes, armed with all the latest improvements, wherever required. So frequent did pogroms become, em- bracing such large numbers of victims and sweep- ing off local groups, that the workers literally lost their leaders; the movement assumed a sporadic character; consistency and continuity of work became absolutely impossible. The amazing dis- persedness of the local workers, the casual compo- sition of the circles, the lack of preparation and the narrow outlook on questions of theory, politics and organization which prevailed, were inevitable con- sequences of the conditions we have described. Matters came to such a pass that in certain local- ities the workers, because of our lack of resistance and the absence of conspiratorial methods, began to lose confidence in the intellectuals and draw away from them. “The intellectuals,” they said, “lead us into defeat much too thoughtlessly” . . . . b) Organizations of Workers and Organizations of Revolutionaries. It is only natural that a Social Democrat who regards the conception of the political struggle as being coincident with the conception of the “eco- nomic struggle against the masters and the gov- ernment,” should regard the conception ‘“organiza- 62

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