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 tion of revolutionaries” as being more or less coincident with the conception “organization of workers.” And this, in fact, is the case; so that when we talk of organization we are literally talking different languages. I recall, for instance, a con- versation I once had with a fairly consistent eco- nomist (1) with whom I had not been previously acquainted. We were talking about the brochure “Who Will Make the Political Revolution?” and we were very soon agreed that its chief defect was that it ignored the question of organization. We were beginning to believe ourselves in complete agree- ment, — but as the conversation proceeded it appeared that we were talking of different things. My interlocutor accused the author of ignoring strike funds, mutual aid societies, etc., whereas I had in mind an organization of revolutionaries, as an essential factor in “making” the political revolu- tion. Once that difference became clear I do not remember to have found myself in agreement with that economist on any question of importance again! Wherein lay the source of our disagreement? It lay in the fact that on questions both of organiza- tion and politics the economists are forever lapsing from Social Democracy into trade unionism. The political struggle of the Social Democrats is far more extensive and complex than the economic Struggle of the workers against the masters and the government. Similarly (and indeed for that rea- son) the organizations of the revolutionary Social 69

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