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 gle, but also by the direct and conscious action of the Socialists in the union upon its members. But a wide organization cannot be a strictly conspira- torial organization (since the latter demands far greater preparatory work than is required for the economic struggle). How is the contradiction be- tween the necessity for a large membership and the necessity for strictly conspiratorial methods to be reconciled? How are we to make the craft unions as little conspiratorial as possible? General- ly speaking, there are perhaps only two ways to this end: either the craft unions become legalized (which in some countries precedes the legalization of the Socialist and political unions), or the organ- ization is kept a secret one, but so “free” and “loose” that the need for conspiratorial methods become almost negligible as far as the mass of the members are concerned. The legislation of the non-Socialist and non- political workers’ union in Russia has already begun, and there is no doubt that every step made by our rapidly growing Social Democratic working class movement will increase and encourage the attempts at legalization. These attempts proceed for the most part from supporters of the existing order, but they must proceed also from the workers themselves and from the liberal intellectuals. The banner of legality has already been unfurled by the Vasilievs and the Zubatovs (4), support has been Promised by the Ozerovs and the Bormsams; and followers of the new tendency are to be found even 67

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