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:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION The Conditions Under Which the Bolshevik Party was Formed. The proletarian party in Russia was formed under conditions which differed from those in which the proletarian parties in the Western countries were formed. In the West the Socialist Parties were formed under legal conditions, when legal labor or- ganizations (trade unions, etc.), bourgeois parlia- ments and a minimum at least of liberty for the la- bor movement existed; in Russia, however, the pro- letarian party was formed prior to the bourgeois democratic revolution, under the severest absolu- tism, the absence of all liberties, but amidst an exist- ing mass labor movement. The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was formed in 1898. Up to the ’90’s, owing to the backwardness of Russia, the Social Democratic movement was main- tained principally by intellectuals. Although the workers took part in the movement, they did not yet have their vanguard in the form of a revolu- tionary labor party and the importance of the de- veloping labor movement was not sufficiently ap- preciated by the revolutionary intellectuals. Among the most progressive section of the intellectuals predominated the ideas of the so-called Narodniki (Populists) who denied that capitalism was develop- ing in Russia and who argued that Russia would progress towards Socialism by other and less pain- ful paths than will the West, i. e., not through cap- ttalism and large-scale machine production, but through the peasant commune, Hence, in the ’90s, R

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