Lenin on organization

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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

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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 But the conclusions drawn from it are for their stupidity and their political tactlessness, worthy of the “Rabochaya Misl” (7). They represent the height of stupidity, because the author confuses the philosophical and social-historical question of striking the “roots” of & movement into the “depths” with the technical and organizational question of the best method of fighting gendarmes. They represent the height of political tactlessness, be- cause the author, instead of appealing from the bad leaders to the good leaders, appeals from the leaders in general to the “crowd.” This, from the organizational point of view, is as much an attempt at retrogression as it is, from the political point of view, an attempt to replace the idea of political agitation by provocatory terrorism. I am, indeed, experiencing a very embarrass de richesses *, not knowing where to begin my criticism of the con- fusion wrought by “Svoboda.” For the sake of clarity, let us begin with an example. Let us take the Germans. I trust you will not deny that with the Germans the organization embraces the crowd, that everything proceeds from the crowd, that the working class movement has learnt to walk on its own legs. Yet, how this vast crowd of millions values its “ten” trained political leaders, how firmly it clings to them! More than once in parliament have members of hostile parties tried to exasperate the Socialists by exclaiming: “What fine democrats you are! Your movement is a working class move- * Embarrassment caused by superfluity.—Trans. zr

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